Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 32 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 33 | Do we not only die , but go to hell for what we have suffered ? ’ |
| 34 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
| 35 | Should we not therefore expect God 's gifts to have their satanic counterpart ? |
| 36 | Did we not recently see riots on the streets of Moscow , with two factions fighting it out ? |
| 37 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 38 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 39 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 40 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 41 | Do they not also need turning points , though . |
| 42 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 43 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 44 | Why could they not always live together like this ? |
| 45 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
| 46 | Does not that demonstrate that low taxation , low inflation and good industrial relations are the basis for strong investment , including inward investment ; and does it not also show that the future of this country is excellent under this Government ? |
| 47 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 48 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 49 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |
| 50 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 51 | Does it not merely subtract from what is already there , and should n't a truly creative process add something too ? |
| 52 | And does it not readily pervade all bodies ? |
| 53 | Similarly , if secondary legislation has already created the ECU , can it not further define its role as a currency ? |
| 54 | ‘ However the fortunes of war shall go … ’ , asks Théoden , ‘ may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth ? ’ |
| 55 | After 22 months , does he not yet understand that sitting there crossing his fingers and closing his eyes will not bring recovery ? |
| 56 | Does he not just see Lapps ? |
| 57 | Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ? |
| 58 | But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ? |
| 59 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 60 | Can he not still keep his company car though , off sick . |