Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew that it would n't just go away if we swept it under the carpet . |
| 2 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 3 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |
| 4 | What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 . |
| 5 | ‘ You heard me telling the Headmistress that it could n't possibly have been you . ’ |
| 6 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 7 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 8 | If you put it in a tea chest and bend its limbs then it 's likely to get broken , and it would n't quite fit in you see d' you see it , And yes she she 's jumping ahead already you see . |
| 9 | And we think that it would be an excessive size er for that particular locality , and it would n't really fit in erm with er the path of the settlement pattern . |
| 10 | A Lotus Elan provides more grip and a Peugeot 309GTi offers more communicative steering , but for a combination of fine throttle adjustability , knife-edged balance , the ability to stay accurately on line , and high levels of security — cut the throttle sharply and it wo n't suddenly swap ends — there 's little to touch the Corrado . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's still the best kept secret in Belfast , but the station will become a household name and it wo n't ever stand still , ’ he promised . |
| 12 | Now at the end of the day the , we were not successful in the bid to retain Oswestry town within the R D A , but I think we will be able to define the boundaries of Oswestry town , and count , count the unemployment then , and it should n't actually create a problem in that area . |
| 13 | it 's same with a Samsung , I end up sometimes putting it in the Toshiba one , to re-wind it back , but I 've had some funny tapes I have just lately , it 's the tape that wo n't re-wind , because how I 've noticed been the tape like , cos I 've put it in the Toshiba and re-wound , but it would n't even re-wind in the Toshiba , so Arthur says well he says that 's the tapes |
| 14 | would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty |
| 15 | Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds a bit idyllic and it is , but it ca n't really happen very often for boring , practical reasons . |
| 17 | The federal government tries to get involved , it tries to see some consistency but it ca n't actually impose that , the states still retain er the right to do things their way and they do . |
| 18 | No but it could n't really have agreed with him much could it really ? |
| 19 | But it could n't actually happen could it ? |
| 20 | Because it would n't really matter that much if it took an hour for the police officer to come . |
| 21 | Surely a being so undeveloped — no , not even a being , an appendage , a little lifeless nubbin of my own flesh — had no claim on me , no claim on life when it could n't even sustain an existence of its own . |