Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her chagrin he did not look hurt in the slightest . |
| 2 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 3 | Even the previous day 's visitors could not have landed on the same spot as you because the ice , and the herd , move many miles each night . |
| 4 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 5 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |
| 6 | We could not have survived without the 13 local interpreters who became our guides , chaperons and friends . |
| 7 | Plants and animals that were incapable of acclimatizing to cold would not have survived in the cooling environment of the early Pleistocene . |
| 8 | The presence of muscle type nAChR or nAChR-like protein in the thymus has been reported previously ( 25–27 ) , however antibodies and probes used in these studies would not have differentiated between the two variants of α . |
| 9 | Erm they would not have gone through the same sort of occupation . |
| 10 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 11 | The DPP statement on June 14 said that the jury in the 1976 trial might not have realised from the scientific evidence provided that the seven could have been innocently contaminated with nitroglycerine , but that " in the light of current scientific knowledge this was a real possibility , however remote " . |
| 12 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |
| 13 | At any other record company , the protesters would not have got beyond the uniformed commissionaires on the door ; at no other record company would you have found a group still wearing kaftans . |
| 14 | Actually , Edberg might not have got beyond the last eight , for Ivan Lendl played wonderful tennis to lead by a set and 5–4 . |
| 15 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 16 | He was just pointing out little do 's and don't 's that might not have occurred to the eager amateur . |
| 17 | Razumikhin would not have laughed like the jolly Nastasya . |
| 18 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 19 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 20 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 21 | After dropping their weapons off — the RMP do not go armed into the Soviet Sector — with the Checkpoint Duty NCO , they arrive at the accident shortly after a Volkspolizei ( People 's Police ) patrol has turned up . |
| 22 | It just so happens that some people get taught or pick up techniques without too much problem ( because of circumstances and the people they interact with and learn from ) but some individuals simply do not get exposed to the right experiences to learn these things in quite the same way . |
| 23 | It is vital that the social worker does not get hooked into the same set of fears , nor slide into a collusion in supporting staff in their problems with management over staff shortages , overtime , and other organisational difficulties at the expense of meeting needs of residents . |
| 24 | Perhaps such cases do not occur with the frequency one may so readily believe or that such cases do not get reported in the national press with the frequency that one might have expected ; or alternatively , perhaps the police are much more successful in capturing the so-called sex maniacs than we sometimes are led to imagine . |
| 25 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 26 | It is remarkable how this interest extends even to topics which do not seem related to the main themes of his studies . |
| 27 | Another body which agrees with Rutherford is the Irish Union which , while keen to simplify ‘ the line-out jungle ’ , does not seem impressed with the quick throw-in concept . |
| 28 | The chairman of TVL did not seem offended by the implied criticism . |
| 29 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 30 | If Jack had had to protect his pitch at Dagenham and White City in the days when men were men , he would n't have survived until the third race . |