Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies . |
| 2 | It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it . |
| 3 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 4 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 5 | It can not in reality be a rational actor in the game-theory sense of having a fixed order of priorities in its policy goals . |