Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospitals etc. improved could n't work without govt. acts . |
| 2 | Something the West Germans or Uncle 's boys or the French could n't do . |
| 3 | It 's a ski race , is n't it , and the English ca n't ski ! |
| 4 | The English ca n't win , Roald — they do n't understand snow , but we do . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of people who are disabled or old ca n't get out to vote . |
| 6 | The British ca n't change their policy and negotiate with these terrorists , can they ? |
| 7 | Yeah but Mutty 's old wo n't understand all the rapping . |
| 8 | ‘ Being careful wo n't help Sam . ’ |
| 9 | For a moment Sabine could n't move . |
| 10 | Sabine could n't imagine anyone lounging in those chairs , or throwing a book or a magazine down on one of the tables . |
| 11 | If I had she 'd have told Sabine and then Sabine would n't have … ’ |
| 12 | Central ca n't film here because since these photographs were taken the air 's become too poisonous to breath . |
| 13 | here are , sorry darling , oops sorry could n't poison you could we ? |
| 14 | Thomson then knocking it long and Speedy could n't get there ahead of Chettle . |
| 15 | No , yeah but I mean that leaflet very likely would n't have you know I mean I think this this leaflet |
| 16 | But brooding would n't help . |
| 17 | I am familiar with the components of your personality , true , as I am familiar with the liquors in that cabinet over there , but throwing all the different liquors together at random wo n't make a cocktail , not one that 's palatable to me at least . |
| 18 | Speedy wo n't agree at the moment because he 's writhing in agony and there 's a little bit of retribution that followed that . |
| 19 | I certainly was Okay wo n't stretch that far you see Okay , well basically you all felt appalling about tutorials and er , yes ? |
| 20 | However Morris believes the National wo n't take a great deal of winning and reckons that Cahervillahow is one of the best handicapped horses in the race on 10st 11 . |
| 21 | That book is all about the idea that the world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary , and that the extraordinary should n't have to live by the dictates of the mediocre majority . |
| 22 | Mr Jenkinson believes controlled burning would n't harm the environment |
| 23 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 24 | No but the poor ca n't go to Tesco stores . |
| 25 | Here in North Africa , as I 've told you before , it 's the richer classes who shut up their women — the poor ca n't afford to . |
| 26 | To be critical , the JD 's Japanese pickups are certainly less powerful than the Signature 's and , overall , they err on the empty-sounding side — a hint of extra mid-range would n't go amiss . |
| 27 | Here it is He must have a haircut , it 's too long would n't wear a hat anyway , I 'd chuck it away . |
| 28 | Often data written at the lower DD current ca n't overwrite previous data written on HD disks at the higher HD current rate . |
| 29 | But , on this evidence , the 31-year-old former England international wo n't have to wait another ten months before linking up again . |
| 30 | and members of the cast donate the prizes , you know , just one prize each or something , a box chocolates which I 'm sure wo n't hurt . |