Example sentences of "[modal v] not do a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 2 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 3 | Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas . |
| 4 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 5 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 6 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 7 | ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie . |
| 8 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 10 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 11 | but it will not do a little bit |
| 12 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |