Example sentences of "[vb past] they [modal v] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 2 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 3 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 4 | Customers taking bikes to the shop for repair or picking up new cycles found they could not park near the shop . |
| 5 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 6 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 7 | As Coote himself protested , both men were privately committed to legislation but believed they could not involve the government on the issue . |
| 8 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 9 | In reply the Namibian authorities stated they could not grant a licence as the islands were South African territory , thus indirectly providing the information required ! |
| 10 | The eastern states claimed they could not afford to dispose of the chemicals , which would require incineration , and were originally given until the end of 1992 to use them up . |
| 11 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 12 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
| 13 | Shadow National Heritage spokesman Ann Clywd was also pleased with the Government 's plans but warned they must not put pools staff out of work . |
| 14 | Info centre to stay shut on Saturdays A TOURIST information centre will remain closed on Saturdays after Middlesbrough councillors decided they could not afford to open the Corporation Road office for a sixth day , despite a campaign to increase tourism . |
| 15 | And some hinted they may not increase AT ALL . |
| 16 | The Australian government announced they would not sign the Antarctic Minerals Convention , designed to control any mineral exploitation there and due to be signed by all nations claiming territory there . |
| 17 | Among financial and personnel managers generally , one in four admitted they would not choose the same career again , 60% were satisfied with their choice , and 15% were unsure . |
| 18 | Fiendishly complex and built to proprietary standards — which meant they would not work with rival machines — those mainframes locked corporate customers into a lifetime of IBM systems , software and service contracts . |
| 19 | In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) . |
| 20 | Many were angered that work or school meant they could not share the moments of glory after watching the team all season . |
| 21 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 22 | Father Morrow said magistrates told him they had studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Tony and felt they could not serve the summons . |
| 23 | The Americans felt they could not stand by and let Europe fall into economic chaos ; their own economy would also suffer . |
| 24 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 25 | A few years ago , the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors introduced and published this report particularly to assist those buyers who felt they could not afford the fees of a full Structural Survey . |
| 26 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 27 | She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop . |
| 28 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 29 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 30 | All the same he watched them like a cold-eyed hawk , and Maggie knew they must not put one foot wrong , favour or not . |