Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought .
2 We should not seek immortality in reproduction .
3 The trader may not have expertise in accounting or buying
4 Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together .
5 Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear .
6 Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs .
7 His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf .
8 Oh I could n't eat chocolate in bed .
9 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
10 He was not like her own father ; he would not discuss business in front of women .
11 They would n't take part in operations .
12 It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first .
13 And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live .
14 Apparently , the explanation is that the institutions where social workers are taught will not tolerate interference in staff appointments .
15 Therefore if a firm plays Cournot , it believes rival firms will not change output in response to a change in hence , the slope of the inverse demand function .
16 Arguments against screening included that other effects of hormone replacement therapy are as or more important when decisions on treatment are made ; that no agreement exists on when and whom to treat ; that measurements vary at different times and with different equipment ; and that there is little separation between the groups who will and will not suffer fracture in terms of bone mass .
17 In addition , variation in SRS will not reflect variation in LRS ( see Gadgil , 1972 ) if individuals that breed successfully show reduced success in future or are likely to cease breeding or die earlier than less successful breeders .
18 We will not accept liability in respect of claims that we receive after that date .
19 Only if that background is established can we be assured that abuse will not take place in future either in Leicestershire or in other counties .
20 It is not enough for librarians to claim that censorship does not and will not take place in libraries .
21 It is based on the assumption that the sacred is better than the secular , that the Church is essentially European and only universal by implication , that celibacy is better than marriage , that belief can not go hand in hand with doubt , that the clerical state is more sublime than the lay , and hence that women are excluded from belonging at the level at which this belonging is most valued .
22 One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes .
23 They can not teach sport in schools .
24 If people can not heat water in winter , they will not wash .
25 With the usual kindly swat , and again directing his intellectual energy towards moral concerns , Johnson replies , ‘ No sir , he can not have pleasure in music , at least no power of producing music ; for he who can produce music may let it alone ; he who can play upon a fiddle may break it : such a man is not a machine . ’
26 Amnesty International declared : " Governments can not brush rape in custody aside as a lesser abuse or isolated act .
27 As this temperature rise occurs after ovulation has already taken place , it can not predict ovulation in advance .
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