Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will not attempt here to develop further the complicated arguments about God as Trinity . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | There were no roots prepared for her here and she would not come again to search if she left now . |
| 4 | Hardest hit are those who can not afford either to service their loan or to sell their house . |
| 5 | We shall not attempt here to give any detailed classification of teaching style . |
| 6 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 7 | He argues that we can not hope even to specify observation sentences which are consequences of given non-observation sentences . |
| 8 | The union movement is under attack , we can not afford ever to waste our resources on fighting each other we should look to always work together . |
| 9 | This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects . |
| 10 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 11 | She recognized that he could not bear openly to confess , yet that he wished to in order to pronounce the mending of his ways . |
| 12 | Having a will professionally drawn up is not a terrible ordeal and it need not take long to explain your wishes . |
| 13 | Knowing him very well , I know that he would not rise just to dissemble . |
| 14 | But it will not do just to dismiss the evidence of their experience out of hand . |
| 15 | He will not go only to compete . |