Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
| 2 | We should not want to go slower than 1/200th second because of camera movement and , for a bright day , f8 at 1/200th with ASA 200 rated film will give a result . |
| 3 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 4 | It is also important to ensure that the tenant should not have to redecorate more than once in any one year and that while there is no objection to paints and materials being of " good quality " they should not be of the " best " quality . |
| 5 | Oblivious should not have tacked here since he loses out to Smart . |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 7 | Like Cadbury 's chocolate , the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception , but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library . |
| 8 | But I might not wish to do so because I might believe it to be wrong to buy an Italian car for one reason or another . |
| 9 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 10 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 11 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 12 | But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer . |
| 13 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 14 | Her eyes could not have bulged further if Werewolf had told her he only wanted her for her mind . |
| 15 | Sorrel could n't have made more than a grand so far that morning . |
| 16 | Sunk in introspective misery , Virginia could n't have said later if it was wet or dry , day or night , winter or summer . |
| 17 | ‘ They could n't have cared less if the whole of manufacturing industry had disappeared , ’ says Weir 's Ron Garrick . |
| 18 | She moved a little but I could n't have cared less if she awoke . |
| 19 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 20 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 21 | She could n't have moved away if her life depended on it . |
| 22 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |
| 23 | could n't wait to get away as soon as he got his bloody present , he was |
| 24 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 25 | I would not want to change even if I were offered a British-sounding voice . |
| 26 | He said he would not start planting again unless prices rose . |
| 27 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 28 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 29 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 30 | Responding to Heath 's invitation , Wilson wrote that he was not a member of the Conservative Party , or of any political party , and while he was willing to assist the Advisory Committee by participating in the work of its study group on post-war crime , he would not wish to do so if the implication of his participation was to become politically committed . |