Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , on June 12 , US Secretary of State James Baker had told a Senate committee that although the Kuwaiti government " may not be the optimum type of regime " , the USA did not seek to transform Kuwait into a Western-style democracy . |
| 2 | Luke was not an eye-witness , otherwise he would not have used Mark as a source . |
| 3 | The typical Soviet response has been that ‘ the Soviet Union did not and does not intend to turn Afghanistan into a base against other countries ’ . |
| 4 | I would n't like to meet Caravaggio on a dark night and who can be sure that Darwin 's life-long illness was really the result of Chagas ' disease ? |
| 5 | he does n't have to put Colin in an M S three just because you 've got a vacancy . |
| 6 | A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year . |
| 7 | The ceremony took place in the Max-Joseph hall of the Residenz , the former Wittelsbach royal palace , most of whose former residents — according to one aghast Munchener — ‘ would n't have allowed Waldheim through the kitchen entrance ’ . |
| 8 | Strangely , though , he does n't mention reading Plutarch on the battlefield . |
| 9 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |