Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb mod] not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was singularly foolish because it obviously could not work without reciprocity , and no Dominion leader , not even his erstwhile friend Bennett of Canada , was willing to throw their markets open to British goods . |
| 2 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 3 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 4 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 5 | Even some five years into the technology there are still areas in which it simply can not compete with the more traditional methods of print production and publishing , the most often quoted being that of output quality . |
| 6 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 7 | It certainly may not stop with Mr Manfred Gerlach , the moderately reform-minded leader of the formerly stooge-like Liberal Democratic Party , who now takes over as head of state . |
| 8 | On 5 June , Gavin Laird of the Amalgamated Engineering Union rightly said on ’ Channel 4 News ’ : ’ It has never worked in the past ; there is no logic for it ; it does not work in any other country and it certainly will not work in Great Britain . ’ |
| 9 | Our support can only be effective to the extent that these universals obtain ; it certainly can not substitute for them . |