Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] now [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to do that on the issue of AIDS , and with the efforts and talents of lesbians and gay men , is the question which must not now be avoided . |
| 2 | But , as it was built , it should not now be demolished . |
| 3 | That Darwin 's ideas could have such manifold influence throughout the entire structure of modern biological theory should not now be surprising . |
| 4 | When you have done a few problems , as above , it should not now be necessary to divide the large boxes into small ones to find the volume . |
| 5 | Had the Tory government done this we should not now be so impotent in seeking the return of the Icklingham Bronzes . |
| 6 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 7 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 8 | It seems that the outlook for smaller businesses may not now be as bleak as it has been so recently . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ with the return of our men from the Services and the increase in the staff , necessitated by the great expansion of our new business , it may not now be so easy to keep in such intimate touch with each other . |
| 10 | It has n't passed on a penny to the landlord … and his tenancy agreement may not now be worth the paper it 's written on |
| 11 | Scotland has had a fairly successful period over the past two or three years and some think that we might not now be so successful — but there is a lot of talent up here . |
| 12 | Her instinct told her that atavistic attitudes , once so popular under John Major 's predecessor , might not now be the thing . |
| 13 | He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment . |
| 14 | In any case he could not now be trusted with clients . |
| 15 | In view of the widespread publicity given to Peter Wright 's book " Spycatcher " it was felt that such damage could not now be established and the injunction against publication was discharged . |
| 16 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 17 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 18 | The letters , they showed a progress through that summer , marking the enchanted moments , the highlights , where pride and vanity could not now be separated from notions of love . |
| 19 | The government in return regretted that its offer had already been terminated and could not now be revived . |
| 20 | Dr Spilsby had confided to Theda his belief that the end could not now be far distant . |
| 21 | I almost envied Mrs Monro , who could n't now be far from blameless death , beyond desire , perhaps beyond regret . |
| 22 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 23 | Yesterday , however , Peter Price , deputy chairman of the council and a member of the board , said that they would not now be likely to be available before Easter . |
| 24 | If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet . |
| 25 | But despite Mr Delors ' firm line on tobacco advertising , the EPC said it now believed even that blanket ban would not now be implemented . |
| 26 | It would not now be possible in one volume to do any kind of justice to so many . |
| 27 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 28 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 29 | But French premier , Pierre Mendès-France , won various concessions : the French army would not now be placed under federal European controls ( instead the European Army was abandoned ) ; German forces would voluntarily desist from using certain categories of weapons , including atomic , bacteriological and chemical devices ; Britain would maintain its current level of forces in Europe , and could therefore help France in controlling Germany in future . |
| 30 | Then without disclosing how — if he had the money to proceed on his own , he would not now be displaying that same information on Esther 's desk — he pressed her for a response . |