Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 2 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 3 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
| 4 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 5 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 6 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 7 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 8 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |
| 9 | For example , children may have heard musical instruments but may not have considered how the sounds are produced or transmitted through the air . |
| 10 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 11 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |
| 12 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 13 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 14 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 15 | That 's no good at all , because when that goes the job stops and I do n't get paid off the grants people and the bank holds the deeds and , if I do n't forthcome with the grant money , then I will lose the house . |
| 16 | Bodies do n't get passed down the generations ; genes do . |