Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reader should not conclude that experimental fluid mechanics is primarily a matter of ‘ look and see ’ ; one always aims to express results as quantitatively as possible .
2 — One should not assume that equal opportunities and career development do n't go together
3 Hence , for example , in the case of the educational system , we should not assume that dominant ideologies about women necessarily give rise to uniform practices in schools and amongst teachers .
4 Because he or she appears to manage , the owners might not realise that old age is taking its toll and that the dog has become much more attached to them because of its sudden psychological inability to cope with the environment .
5 They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks .
6 But she could n't lit that self-contained assurance and elegance with this lost and hopeless sobbing .
7 In the short term Soviet spokesmen need not feel that general support for the Zone idea will harm Soviet Vietnamese relations or act to isolate Vietnam .
8 When I look at my colleagues in the US , I ca n't say that total competition is total success . ’
9 ‘ I simply ca n't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets .
10 I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity .
11 The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) .
12 So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud .
13 Without such concepts I can not see that human infants could acquire a language ’ ( 1982 : 47 ) .
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