This could not happen to a real person, nor, perhaps, to the narrator of a first-person novel. |
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I longed for my parents to hire a horse-drawn cab instead of a taxi but that did not happen. |
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Mr Wilmot said he could not give any assurances that this would not happen. |
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But if entrepreneurs can discover new opportunities for higher profits, the decline does not happen, at least on the macro level. |
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If you think that a hostage situation like the one in Russia could not happen here, you are sadly mistaken. |
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And a coach which goes on fire with passengers in it is a horror which should not happen. |
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It does not happen in other field games where they simply perform their primary duty and that is to enforce the rules. |
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You promised my wife that you would telephone me within the next two days which did not happen. |
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If that does not happen, it will be bad for him, worse still for Britain, and even worse for the world. |
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Many farmers were under the illusion that an accident can not and will not happen on their farm. |
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This convergence of government officials does not happen when a meteor falls to Earth. |
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We had been optimistic that track conditions might suit us during the race, but that did not happen. |
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This should not happen in a park where the right field wall is 307 feet down the line. |
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If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop. |
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This would not happen if we had sufficient staff and resources to do our job properly. |
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Of course this did not happen overnight, but the issue has come to a head in recent months. |
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My theological orientation does not happen to be one which minimizes the stubbornness of man's depravity. |
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If this does not happen the odds are that the Mountmellick TD could be on his way out of Leinster House. |
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If this does not happen, then the values and truths a writer seeks to convey remain half-truths and half lies. |
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The re-establishment of the Bulgarian Patriarchy was opposed by the Ecumenical Patriarchy as it did not happen according to the canonical order. |
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I hope this thing is nipped in the bud and does not happen to any other councillor. |
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Learn all you can in the simulator, especially those emergency procedures that hopefully do not happen on your daily sorties. |
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An inaccurate weather forecast meant the gritters did not get out in time, and steps will be taken to ensure it does not happen again. |
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In actual fact, the Brazilians could have scored more goals, but this did not happen. |
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If this does not happen, it could create an untenable situation and cause unjustifiable delays. |
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Nevertheless, they would be well advised to take measures to ensure that something of this nature does not happen again. |
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But she admitted that might not happen if the victims failed to give details of their new addresses. |
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The 9th amendment was added to the bill of rights for the express purpose of insuring that this would not happen. |
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When that did not happen, there was no Plan B or Plan C in place, and the bowling looked embarrassingly aimless. |
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All the tenants are hoping that once the drain is drilled through and cleared of its blockage, the flooding will not happen again. |
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They don't rebut him by arguing either that cutbacks in the safety net will not happen or even that they're a good thing. |
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Under the new dispensation of the modern welfare state, with the big job-grinder going round and round, this does not happen. |
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The door was ajar and swung open without resistance, and with Tabitha at home that did not happen. |
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Of course, that did not happen, even though the state subsequently acknowledged that a grave injustice had been done in that case. |
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Even the government now accepts that this will not happen, but might at worst delay enlargement by some months. |
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He said the people in the caravans had desecrated every area and they would just have to take strong action so that it would not happen again. |
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A few years back charities and voluntary organisations had a mutual respect for one another's services and duplication did not happen. |
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If this sort of relationship did not happen then maternal deprivation resulted which could lead to crime and delinquency. |
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The postmodern media critic once asserted that this conflict did not happen, and was only a televised simulation of a war. |
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This does not happen, however, because the cell membrane itself is impermeable to ions like sodium and potassium. |
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What is your feeling now that you are in pole position and the race might not happen tomorrow? |
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My mommy then reassured me that such a thing would not happen, she and daddy are still loving as before. |
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But that did not happen, and the House of Lords survived in a triumvirate with the king and Commons. |
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Our senior economists were saying then that it could not happen again. |
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The ballot uncertainty that convulsed the nation after Florida's vote in 2000 could not happen in Mexico or Brazil. |
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The overall kill at the factories for the week was slightly down which could have had an effect on holding prices, but clearly that did not happen. |
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If this does not happen, there will be a possible recourse to arms. |
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It is the season for lambing and sheep owners in the area are very worried as there have been a few small incidents already and they are hoping this will not happen again. |
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This would not happen if the poem rhymed, but the poem does not rhyme. |
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It just did not happen for us on the day but then that's life. |
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They were owned animals and presumably valuable livestock that just did not happen any old how but were deliberately bought and raised by a farmer. |
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If we are realistic, this formulation probably will not happen in the next few years. |
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Such Rambo-like defenses of home and hearth do not happen in real life, unless the home also happens to contain a meth lab. |
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Organizers wish to express their enormous appreciation to community and corporate sponsors without which an event of this magnitude could not happen. |
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The principal and her toadies made it seem that our opinions were important and that the reorganisation would not happen if we were dead set against it. |
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The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars. |
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I am sick and tired of being told what might and what might not happen. |
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All of our colleagues go through extensive training to ensure that under-age purchasing does not happen, but this rare case means we must continue to be vigilant. |
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A verdict that could have provided accountability, vindication, and healing did not happen. |
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These were not feral pests they were owned animals and presumably valuable livestock that just did not happen any old how but were deliberately bought and raised by a farmer. |
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But governors are pleading for a breathing space to try to build up numbers, which they fear will not happen with the threat of closure hanging over the school. |
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It's hard to say what's causing this traffic, but you may be able to persuade your admin that it will not happen again by filtering outgoing multicast traffic. |
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What about the death and poverty that will remain a constant in their lives if war, and the regime change that the war will bring about, does not happen? |
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If that does not happen, councillors may co-opt a new member. |
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Getting rid of the guns, goons and godfathers will not happen overnight. |
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This did not happen, and MOMI's closure became permanent in 2002 when it was decided to redevelop the South Bank site. |
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This did not happen because of a failure to agree on a site, and the parsimony of British governments. |
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It offers no consolation, closure or assurance that this kind of accident will not happen again. |
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This was rejected by Napoleon, who stated he had promised his ally Austria this would not happen. |
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Further upgrades did not happen until the 1990s when new North, East and West stands were built. |
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It's hard to know with the Taoiseach, who has been making up stories about events that did not happen. |
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Contrarily, this did not happen for chin and choose, which are kin and kieze. |
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The steady growth in recent years of sales of free range and perchery eggs did not happen in 1999, with alternative volumes static. |
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These annexations did not happen, resulting in animosity from Napoleon towards Bismarck. |
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Sylvia Vavasour of Animal Rights Action Network said these freak accidents should not happen. |
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In spring 1916, Milner hoped Lloyd George could be persuaded to bring down the coalition government by resigning, but this did not happen. |
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These requirements would help to ensure that such a blackout does not happen again. |
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North of the Benrath line up to the North Sea, this consonant shift did not happen. |
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There appears to be no geological evidence for such eruptions at the right time, but this does not prove they did not happen. |
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In a country of know-it-alls, this does not happen, Pekevski writes. |
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There was also some hope that the Eastern Bloc nations would join the plan, and thus be pulled out of the emerging Soviet bloc, but that did not happen. |
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For example, the administration prepared Operation Desert Badger to respond aggressively if any Air Force pilot was shot down while flying over Iraq, but this did not happen. |
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That will not happen around the June solstice or for the next six months. |
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Anderson has hypothesized that plate tectonics could not happen without the calcium carbonate laid down by bioforms at the edges of subduction zones. |
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The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen. |
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In this environment, funding for naval expeditions simply did not happen. |
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Philip threatened to invade Normandy if this did not happen. |
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There is a frequent misunderstanding to think that waiting happens in places like the United Kingdom and Canada but does not happen in the United States. |
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He argued that the completeness of many finds indicated that transport did not happen, and saw partial individuals and isolated bones as results of weathering and trampling. |
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However, the Neolithic Revolution in Brittany did not happen due to a radical change of population, but by slow immigration and exchange of skills. |
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That did not happen, and instead Libyan terrorism fell off sharply. |
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It has not happen due to blood transfusion from the Junagadh Blood Bank. |
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Mr. King's message was that Johnny Foreigner does it better than us. In Germany, in Japan and in the United States, these bottlenecks just do not happen. |
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But we can hardly avoid the bad if we make believe it did not happen. |
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In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn, and that simply does not happen to money in my pocket. |
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