Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the results found in studies on non-alcoholic subjects may not hold true for chronic alcoholic patients . |
| 2 | On the team coach to away games when he was with Crystal Palace he could n't sit still for five minutes . |
| 3 | Not only could I not do it but the effort was so excruciating that I opened my mouth to scream and could n't breathe enough for that either . |
| 4 | I shall not do this for two related reasons . |
| 5 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 6 | Hereward would n't have that for some reason , so he took his little spade and started himself . ’ |
| 7 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 8 | But surely you 're not so naïve that you ca n't understand that for any normal man to be in close contact with a girl for days on end without wanting her is damned impossible ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My beers are certainly bitter but you can drink several pints — and you ca n't say that for many big brewers ' beers . ’ |
| 10 | EPA will not tighten standard for urban ozone |
| 11 | She does n't begin to ovulate until she has been mated and will not become fertile for another two or three days . |
| 12 | It may be that the injuries are such that their full effects will not become apparent for some time and a hasty settlement might lead to an underestimation of the damage , but generally delay is on the side of the defendant . |
| 13 | Mr Sunman says : ‘ The true beauty of the Railside Revival wo n't become apparent for many years yet . |
| 14 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Our vocabulary and semantics can not remain fixed for all time , as some commentators , even today , might prefer . |