Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though my bike and rucksack were miles away on the platform of Fort William station , I can not remember being so profoundly moved on public transport , unless you count the time I thought I saw Sean Connery on the Piccadilly Line . |
| 2 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 3 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed . |
| 5 | The guidelines may not have been sufficiently widely disseminated , or they may have been viewed as impractical or unrealistic . |
| 6 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
| 7 | The political situation could not have been more evenly divided , as a document in the Zetland papers makes clear : |
| 8 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the manuscript regarded as providing the best text of the poem , Bibliothèque National fr.19152 , labels the work a " " fable " " in the first line while the other copies read " " fabliaus " " or " " fableaus " " , suggesting that the category of fabliau may not have been so clearly defined and recognized at this early date as it was later to become . |
| 10 | These frameworks can not have been so utterly objectified , if they provide the elements which permit the growth of religious belief . |
| 11 | Donald , who did n't like being so rudely woken up and then bumped about , yelled at the top of his voice . |