Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |
| 2 | It is possible for an aircraft to have several different modes of spinning , and all of them may not have been discovered during the testing . |
| 3 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 4 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 5 | In particular we discuss two aspects of the interpretation of definite pronouns , which we call role mapping and name mapping , and suggest that either one of them may not occur in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 6 | Material sent to them should not exceed 100 words . |
| 7 | This feature occurs because rational expectations generally implies restrictions on the coefficients of the model , and if the restrictions are valid then imposing them should not worsen the model 's explanatory power . |
| 8 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 9 | ‘ Although , I agree , some of them might not think it very appropriate . |
| 10 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 11 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 12 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 13 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 14 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 15 | Last night the atmosphere between them could not have been more different . |
| 16 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 17 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 18 | I find they resemble grit and taste the same — even the health store from which I bought them could not enlighten me . |
| 19 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 20 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 21 | If you let somebody else get stuff on your book , and some of them could n't pay it , you know , you 've no means of paying it . |
| 22 | Then each one of them could n't help noticing that the others seemed to be walking faster and faster . |
| 23 | Some of them could n't afford it . |
| 24 | Some of them could n't afford i You had I think you had to put something in . |
| 25 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 26 | — Ecclesiastes ; ‘ Doth the eagle mount up at the command / And make her nest on high … ’ — Job ; ‘ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father . ’ |
| 27 | He knew that four of them would n't come for anything he might have done . |
| 28 | This was a Regency crescent , its big houses a shuffled deck of peeling stucco and expensive restoration , and even the meanest of them would n't come cheap . |
| 29 | Even if they were all trying like mad , a lot of them would n't get jobs . |
| 30 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |