Example sentences of "[noun sg] that this [modal v] not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next section I offer an argument that this can not be right , and if the argument is sound we shall have to find some other way of showing how any of our beliefs can be non-inferentially justified and thus can stand on their own feet . |
| 2 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |
| 3 | I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective . |
| 4 | Councillor Seamus Rogers of the Workers Party felt that the County Council should set up a sub-committee to look into the issue , while Councillor Brian Gallagher said they should get experts down to the area quickly to issue a ‘ statement that this will not be detrimental in the long term ’ . |
| 5 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |