Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] n't be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
2 | So you must n't be bruised and disappointed because your impeccable piece is turned down . |
3 | The answers come immediately : ‘ So we wo n't be cheated ’ ; ’ So we wo n't have to say , ‘ I do n't know how to sign my name ’ ’ ; ‘ So we can help the kids with their homework ’ ; ‘ So we 'll know who to vote for . |
4 | So we wo n't be tied down to schools very much longer . |
5 | Also it 's out of the way , something we prefer so we ca n't be accused of over-running crags with school parties . ’ |
6 | All Leeds can do at the moment is keep winning the games we should win and clock the away victories , so that when the Uniteds of this world come along we wo n't be psyched out of beating them . |
7 | Obviously they could n't be ridden on a mountain , but magazine articles and newspaper features began treating them as a status symbol , and so every airhead on a salary of over £20,000 a year rushed out to buy one and take it up a mountain . |
8 | I , produced a list of what 's already inside here , er , these calculate are the files registered , they 're not numbered so they would n't be registered , but they would surely |
9 | so they would n't be allowed to join |
10 | Obviously he ca n't be trusted . |
11 | So it ca n't be used . |
12 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
13 | So we 'd want to put an embargo note on this release , so it could n't be used prematurely . |
14 | I was just I would n't be bothered anyway . |
15 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
16 | Now remember they 're not they ca n't be counted as your boss |
17 | Begin keeping a record of all events at this point ; hopefully it wo n't be needed , but if it is you 've made a good start . |
18 | Somewhere we wo n't be disturbed . |
19 | ‘ Somewhere we wo n't be disturbed while we finish our talk . ’ |
20 | ‘ We 'll continue this discussion another time , ’ he said quietly , ‘ somewhere we wo n't be disturbed . |
21 | ‘ Now , ’ pointing the gun towards her attacker and praying inwardly she would n't be called upon to use it since she had n't the faintest idea how firearms worked , she glanced over towards Adam and the other man still engaged in a tussle on the floor , ‘ I suggest we call a halt to all this nonsense . ’ |
22 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
23 | Well I thought , well I ca n't be bothered to get , so I got it and I went chee chee ! |
24 | Well I 've said it actually , if you do it frequently you ca n't be bothered I suppose . |
25 | You ca n't you ca n't be expected to learn everything all at once can you ? |
26 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
27 | Well it wo n't be wiped off dear . |
28 | Well it ca n't be helped . |
29 | Well it ca n't be used for fox hunting now . |
30 | Well it should n't be done anyway . |