Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not pause to sniff at the scents of other dogs , at the same time remaining very responsive to its owner 's instructions , adjusting its stance slightly , perhaps , to show off its finer points . |
| 2 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 3 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 4 | The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism . |
| 5 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 6 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 7 | She could not bear to look at the fallen doll in white satin and tulle . |
| 8 | Harry could not help smiling at the boy 's excessive politeness . |
| 9 | Penelope could not help smiling at the formality of his words . |
| 10 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 11 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 12 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 13 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 14 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 15 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 16 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 17 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 18 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 19 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 20 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 21 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 22 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 25 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 26 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 27 | If we are constituted as subjects by the totalities we inhabit , then our beliefs about the divide between science and ideology ( Althusser 's included ) will be determined too , and we can not expect to arrive at an impartial , objective view of it . |