Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project proposes to find out how far the thinking of these pupils can be advanced , over a period of two years , to give them access to concepts which hitherto they would not have had . |
| 2 | Better they wo n't do anything ! |
| 3 | I soon knew so much they could not deny me any longer ! |
| 4 | " They think they wo n't be able to understand it so naturally they ca n't understand it . |
| 5 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 6 | It is the occupational disease of widowhood , Alida had long ago decided , they are none of them self-sufficient , they have been cushioned for so long they can not keep silent or rely upon themselves . |
| 7 | and even if anybody saw you going down they would n't take a big deal of notice . |
| 8 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
| 9 | Since we could barely stand up or speak there was little point in dropping in on Ted and Theresia , although perhaps they would n't have noticed much difference in my case , given as they are to ply me with drink . |
| 10 | Perhaps we would n't but perhaps they would n't have been if it 's the right word for them , a bit sloppy . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps they would not understand , my lady , being men and accustomed to … ’ |
| 12 | I suppose if it 's theirs perhaps they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 13 | They suddenly , whether they 're boys or girls , they suddenly decide sometime in their teens perhaps they ca n't do it . |
| 14 | They have n't got one and I 'll s er say this as I 've said everything on the wireless or anything , whatever I 've said I 'll say to their face , and I can slot the num perhaps they ca n't prove everything but you know it 's there . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps they will not learn , ’ said Dinah . |
| 16 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |
| 17 | Many secondary teachers are worried about it because they say ‘ The children are coming into the secondary school having perhaps used computers and we ca n't offer them computing for two or three years , erm you know and they 're going to be very frustrated , erm and so perhaps they should n't go into primary ’ . |
| 18 | Obviously they ca n't do everything all at once . |
| 19 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 20 | Obviously they can not raise all the issues connected with insider evaluation so other examples are drawn on , but in less detail , in the final ‘ Issues ’ section of this chapter . |
| 21 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 22 | Obviously they could n't give us |
| 23 | a paperback book which obviously they could n't get rid of . |
| 24 | They would n't come in they would n't come into the porch even . |
| 25 | So they would n't fail to keep the law in one bit . |
| 26 | So they would n't move . |
| 27 | so they would n't switch it off . |
| 28 | So they would n't have been cold . |
| 29 | And invite you she said well that 's you 're not going so they would n't get in anyway now and |
| 30 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |