Example sentences of "who [vb mod] not [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An even lower profile is provided by teachers who may not set foot in the classroom at all but who may spend considerable periods of time in discussion with colleagues on ways in which the curriculum can be made more accessible to all children in the class , including the least able .
2 For those of you who may not have herad anything yet , according to a poster on r.s.s .
3 Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love .
4 We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) .
5 Less offensive were those who could not face dismissal : ‘ He who wo n't swear the oath will lose his job . ’
6 However , a court might be prepared to accept ( for instance ) that it would be unreasonable for a manufacturer to exclude liability to a retailer who could not exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its customers .
7 In the past , it was often assumed that all babies who could not tolerate milk were lactase-deficient , and this idea is still current in some quarters .
8 Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together .
9 But what of foreigners who could not speak English ?
10 People who could not afford litigation ( because they could not pay the difference between their costs and the taxed costs recoverable ) or who could not afford the risk of litigation ( because costs awarded might not be recoverable or because they might lose ) might be assisted by the scheme .
11 The second was a farmer-substitute scheme to help those who could not obtain assistance during periods of illness .
12 Rafe Straker , like many of the original white settlers of the Bahamas , had been an American loyalist who could not stomach life under George Washington .
13 In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office .
14 The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously .
15 This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading .
16 A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour .
17 Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity .
18 However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer .
19 Those who could n't speak French were mixed in equal number with those who could .
20 Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes .
21 [ But ] the author excludes too many dialectical tensions from the book at the start : no church music will be considered ; no worrying about those Americans who could n't afford sheet music and a piano in the parlor is allowed either ; and no room for primarily instrumental music like marches , ragtime , jazz , or polka music up to 1950 .
22 And er there was only one who could n't take part and he was in the fire brigade and could n't take part because they were er his employers .
23 There was a woman called Wilkinson who could n't keep order in a birdcage .
24 I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue .
25 Significantly , the journalists who could n't find time to come , were those Fleet Street hacks with famous names who write most noisily on the pros and cons of optic fibre for the cabling of Britain .
26 The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops .
27 And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth .
28 The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds .
29 We now have friends all over the country and I often think about the elderly disabled chap who would n't accept help to lift his canoe at portages or the young white faced girl who would n't give up though exhausted .
30 There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power .
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