Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [coord] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a precedent does not exist and will not be established under the relatively minor privatisation programme that we are discussing today . |
| 2 | The introduction of summary financial statements ensured that building society members did not have to cope with extensive , detailed financial information that they did not want and could not be expected to understand . |
| 3 | The questions he could not answer and could not ignore . |
| 4 | I think our view of the effects of numbers significantly lower than the ones that we 've put to you , is first of all that there are a number of factors which planning can not influence and will not influence . |
| 5 | As regards the patient already dead , the reasoning is that although the patient displays outward manifestations of life , in that , by virtue of the ventilator , breathing and heartbeat are maintained , these manifestations are mechanically induced and are not sustained nor will ever again be sustainable by the patient . |
| 6 | In promoting our credit facilities we shall not put pressure on you to borrow money which you do not need or can not afford . |
| 7 | And he warned : ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 9 | And he warned : ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 10 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 11 | B has infringed the patent for the computer chips even if he did not know or could not be expected to know of the patent . |
| 12 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 13 | It is to enable those who do not know and can not know enough for policy-making to make policy , yet it is to have no policies of its own . ’ |
| 14 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 15 | She will not say what the item is , claiming ( reasonably ) that she wo n't divulge the secret of a valuable or important item to people she does not know and can hardly be expected to trust . |
| 16 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 17 | He did not know and could not say : he tore off the silly beard and began a sentence about resignation , which he could not finish . |
| 18 | In any proceedings for an offence under this Act of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . |
| 19 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |
| 20 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
| 21 | These are part of the construct of contemporary childhood which we can not exclude and must not ignore . |
| 22 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 23 | If she ate enough she would not speak and could not cry out . |
| 24 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 25 | At the distance of the Earth from the Sun this force component would not contribute and would not be detectable in the experiment . |
| 26 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 27 | It is the experience of other sociologists on similar missions that their findings are frequently cast in a negative role — that certain conservation measures will not succeed or will actually do harm — and also that they are frequently overridden or relegated to writing a disparate chapter in a project document or report entitled ‘ Social constraints to soil and water conservation ’ . |
| 28 | It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent . |
| 29 | He said he was not injured and would not be taking any action about the incident . |
| 30 | Terence Place , although highly favoured for the job , had not confessed and might never do so . |