Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't drive over potholes ’ : as a cyclist , if I tried to avoid every pothole I saw , I would not be here to write this letter . |
| 2 | That is my forecast , although I will not be here to see it unfold . |
| 3 | I will not be there to hear it . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if you had n't , you would not be here to tell the tale , Miss Thorne ? ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ Is a pity you can not be here to meet Georgi . ’ |
| 6 | If they did not , we would not be here to observe them . |
| 7 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 8 | There may not be long to wait . |
| 9 | It might not be just to press philosophical objections , since it is obvious that a rhetorical question does not commit him to ignore even the most imminent of coming events . |
| 10 | She watched , not pursuing in what event he might not be there to make it himself . |