Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If the condition had not been diagnosed might have discovered he was ill when it was too late to do anything , ’ said .
2 Her known associates are all deceased , although a sighting which has not been discounted would put her in the company earlier this year of Hawk-That-Settles , a Navaho medicine man and dealer in controlled substances .
3 The presence of features of severe hyposplenism in a patient who has not been splenectomised may indicate the presence of sickle cell disease .
4 Older dogs which have not been groomed can prove very difficult in this respect .
5 The debate on whether insider dealing should or should not be regulated would appear to revolve around difference in moral values and differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing .
6 A further 147,000 vehicles which can not be converted will have to be replaced over the same period by new ones equipped with catalytic converters .
7 The result is that for the first time this season those of us whose attachment to the Welsh All Blacks can not be broken can start to look ahead with optimism .
8 ‘ Those who scoff that this can not be done should look to the United States .
9 He said : ‘ We very much regret that 30 secretarial and clerical staff who will not be moving will receive redundancy notice .
10 In any event , cross-references which can not be resolved will remain flagged as such so that the system is always consistent with respect to which references are navigable .
11 A chaos that could not be disentangled must have arisen .
12 Those that can not be improved will go .
13 Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run .
14 The mythical story of Cassandra functions as an allegory for the fate of alternative forms of language use ; truthful but ‘ unheeded and unhinged ’ ( 12,144 ) , the figure of Cassandra is an example of the extreme to which women 's frustration at not being heard can push them .
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