Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Foster and old Mond might not get on so well is in the argument of research-driven v market-driven advance . |
| 2 | And old Sue wo n't be here at half past eleven , half past twelve hurry up . |
| 3 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 4 | The Iranian , Syrian and Turkish governments were also reported to be concerned that the elections in Iraqi Kurdistan should not be seen as a first move towards the creation of an independent Kurdish state . |
| 5 | We do hope Leeds make it to the FA Cup final , however the players now only receive 6 tickets ( or the Leeds players will ) As Anthony 's wife and two children , and his father , myself and Lisa his sister will be going I am afraid Anthony would n't have any spare . |
| 6 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
| 7 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 8 | Even if the telephone war turns nasty , Swindon Cable can rest assured that British Telecom wo n't be stealing any of its television viewers . |
| 9 | Even if the telephone war turns nasty , Swindon Cable can rest assured that British Telecom wo n't be stealing any of its television viewers . |
| 10 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 11 | Old Crumwallis wo n't notice I 've had more than his miserly allowance . |
| 12 | A six-month old Rodin should not be sold for as much as one the artist himself made . |
| 13 | The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it . |
| 14 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 15 | Old Harry ca n't stand Lillibet and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 16 | Reports of his side having struggled to a disappointing home draw with lowly Airdrie will not have been his sole concern as he takes stock of his Scottish investment . |
| 17 | If it is windy Tracey will not risk taking him on the roads , and instead exercises him in the school , but she never jumps him . |
| 18 | However that may be , the prediction that non-ascriptive adjectives will be ungrammatical here is borne out by the evidence of associatives and others ( this is the more revealing , since it might sometimes be possible to understand the meaning which would be intended by the construction where they could be supposed to occur ) : ( 62 ) Fanshawe reported O'Neill 's collar clerical Jones could not imagine his wife former |
| 19 | But for some reason old Stuart ca n't get over it . |
| 20 | Even an unscrupulous Sally-Anne could not quite kill her mama off completely — if he thought that her mama had bolted , well , so be it . |
| 21 | With even Marxist Cuba now hungry for foreign investment , say optimists , rigid state control of energy industries in other parts of Latin America can not last long . |
| 22 | Transfer-listed Davenport could n't remember the last time he 'd played alongside deadly Don in the league . |
| 23 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 24 | The division of Glamorgan allowed each of the former county boroughs to be placed in a separate county though in terms of total area or population a unified Glamorgan would not be unusual in an English context . |
| 25 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 26 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 27 | The real Jesus could not have been more removed from Renan 's ‘ amiable carpenter ’ who spoke beautifully about the lilies of the field in order to convey a new and simple principle of love , ; the ‘ historical Jesus ’ of so many searches and ‘ discoveries , was not historical at all . |
| 28 | The coming battle for the soul of Central Europe will not be decided on the playing fields of EMU , nor by throwing in the sheepmeat regime at the decisive moment . |
| 29 | In response to the intervention by the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) , a more democratic Europe can not continue to accommodate a non-democratic Commission . |
| 30 | If central Asia could not be approached from the Caspian it had to be penetrated from the north , which meant bridging the gap between Russia 's south-eastern military outpost at Orenburg and the Aral Sea . |