Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could not in good conscience tell people to buy disposable diapers . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 3 | However , I would not for one moment deny the continuity and the gradualness of the processes which are changing the earth . |
| 4 | Sir , — I can not for one moment imagine that Ian McGeechan will ‘ feel hugely satisfied because his backs are beginning to fulfil some of the potential that they have shown for years ’ ( David Sole , 8 March ) after the disappointment of the 26-12 humiliation by England last Saturday . |
| 5 | Their appellate jurisdiction was also extended , presumably by agreement between the Inns and the judges , to issues relating to disputes over property within the Inns : Rakestraw v. Brewer ( 1728 ) 2 P.Wms. 511 , or over elections in the Inns : Inner Temple v. Ince ( 1677 ) 3 Keble 835 , or over debts due to the Inns : Levinz v. Randolph ( 1700 ) 1 Ld.Raym. 594 , which could not by any stretch of the imagination relate to the duties of judges in relation to the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 6 | In fact , it is quite hard to think of a dream-image which can not in some way be ingeniously linked to an aspect of the dreamer 's sex-life , lack of it , or attitudes towards it . |
| 7 | Though what it was that she knew , she could not at that moment have said . |
| 8 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 9 | But you could not in all honesty , Wilson , expect us to make that our first consideration . ’ |
| 10 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 11 | she can not after that date , and because of her pregnancy , continue to do that work without contravening a statute . |
| 12 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
| 13 | In insisting on these limits , we are not concerned with the philosophical problem of whether there is free will at all , but with the evidence of common experience that although you can choose to think about a problem , be considerate to your wife , distribute pamphlets for a cause or pray for forgiveness for a crime , you can not by mere exertion of will hit on a new thought , love your wife , have faith in the cause , or repent the crime . |
| 14 | if that is done we shall not in any way , shape or form encourage the resistance of Ulster . |
| 15 | remarked that one would not in ordinary parlance say that Desdemona died by accident , because ‘ the horror of the crime dominates the imagination and compels the expression of the situation in terms related to the crime and the criminal alone . ’ |
| 16 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 17 | But we can not in this case take the flow of newly issued bills , or even the net flow ( new issues minus redemptions ) as the supply and learn anything useful from it about the operation of the market . |
| 18 | But they could not at this point publicly repudiate him . |
| 19 | They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer . |
| 20 | They will not in this way learn to control those impulses which lead them to transgress . |
| 21 | They are not a substitute , they can not in any sense make decisions for you , nor can they guarantee your performance . |
| 22 | I WOULD just like to assure Raymond Campbell that he should not for one moment think that Glentoran fans will be upset about his move to Linfield . |
| 23 | It could not by any stretch of the imagination be anything else . |
| 24 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 25 | He could not at that stage hope to fulfil this role himself . |
| 26 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he would not for any money have delegated it to anyone else . |
| 28 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 29 | The recipient Party further undertakes to the supplying Party that it will not during that period use the same except in or for the said purposes . |
| 30 | 10.5 Each Party undertakes to each of the other Parties in respect of results generated by it that it will not at any time make any publication or disclosure that would prejudice the rights of any of the other Parties in making IPR applications except for publication or disclosure : |