Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , this Veronica wo n't put up with this — comes round the theatre between shows one night — really drunk — really — I do n't like that in a woman — and she 's swearing and effing and blinding — big shout-up with Steenie — going to tell his wife , all that . |
| 2 | This condition should not pose too much of a problem , since the minister responsible , Luigi Covatta , stated publicly on a visit to Venice at the end of January that he was willing to return the materials still stored in Rome . |
| 3 | Contrary to what Harney says , the disc margins in this condition need not remain well defined . |
| 4 | Opposition figures expressed concern that this timescale would not give newly emerging political parties sufficient time to establish themselves . |
| 5 | But even without the figures it takes very little imagination to see why this council must not put off any longer the construction and commissioning of the southern fire station . |
| 6 | Coun Jim Knowles said : ‘ We all knew that this proposal would not go through , and it is now clear that we should not be pursuing a policy of closing schools . ’ |
| 7 | Now that digital Hight simulators were replacing the older analogue types , this proposal should not prove too troublesome . |
| 8 | whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing . |
| 9 | ‘ This lady ca n't go back home alone , ’ he said . |
| 10 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 11 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 12 | If we lived in a society where such specialization had little significance , this difference might not matter However . |
| 13 | This process should not take more than three months . |
| 14 | Yet this generalisation will not bear too much weight . |
| 15 | This conclusion may not remain universally true when we allow for heterogeneous capital ; none the less , the possibility remains that shifting may take place and we need to check when considering policy proposals the likelihood of this actually happening . |
| 16 | Gastrin is thought to actually increase the lower oesophageal sphincter pressure and therefore any effects caused by this factor would not have materially changed the results of our study . |
| 17 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 18 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 19 | This arrangement wo n't last forever because the needle is too smooth and the feather will slip away from it . |
| 20 | It seems to us that this approach would not work where the ideas are essentially novel or controversial . |
| 21 | Well what all the wives do agree about living in their fortified compounds guarded round the clock is that the end of this tour ca n't come soon enough . |
| 22 | Dover has strong views on why this Bill should not get any further . |
| 23 | Er Moderator er there is n't any reason in principle why this sh should n't happen that er this subject could n't come up at the presbytery clerks conference . |
| 24 | This explanation may not seem very attractive . |
| 25 | But this progression will not continue indefinitely until punishment disappears ; on the contrary , Durkheim predicted that the tendency would reverse , and less serious crimes against the person would come to be criminalized . |
| 26 | Examination results were limited , national testing and assessment would provide " a wider-based source of information " ( Audit Commission 1989:7 ) but again this information would not reveal how much was attributable to the school and how much to the home . |
| 27 | And — and many men in this situation would not care how they used me . ’ |
| 28 | And then she began : ‘ Agnes , this situation ca n't go on . |
| 29 | Then just before 9pm ( was it timed to make the national news ) came the announcement the cast had all feared — this show wo n't go on . |
| 30 | Technically this solo should n't present too many problems . |