Example sentences of "they [modal v] not [vb infin] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had decided that they should not walk up the staircase to the throne room but find another route to approach their captors . |
| 2 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair said that although they could not rule out the possibility of someone else having fired the machine , the incident was now being treated as an accident . |
| 3 | And they could not rule out the bigger commercial craft , tugs , lighters , oil tankers , and general cargo coasters , pursuing their lawful occasions on the Thames . |
| 4 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 5 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Paula Milne 's powerful and controversial play is a fictional account of her own experience of having a mongol baby and deciding , with her husband Peter , that they would not bring up the child . |
| 7 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 8 | The women may close down the village boozer , but they will not shut down the business altogether . |
| 9 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 10 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 11 | To attribute authorship to the experts and knowledge engineers who developed the knowledge base is unsatisfactory because they can not predict how the system will be used and what responses will be made by the user ; they have no control over its use . |
| 12 | Pauli 's exclusion principle says that two similar particles can not exist in the same state , that is , they can not have both the same position and the same velocity , within the limits given by the uncertainty principle . |
| 13 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 14 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |
| 15 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |