Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One export that wo n't say Made in Taiwan . |
| 2 | Possibly a subsequent review stimulates action that would not have taken place but for the committee 's initial probing . |
| 3 | The exact role of cortisol is unknown , but its importance can be deduced from the observation that animals that can not produce cortisol , due to injury for instance , are very vulnerable in emergencies . |
| 4 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 5 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 6 | If you wash your hair frequently use an extra mild shampoo that wo n't dry it out . |
| 7 | Of light through eyes that can not meet again . |
| 8 | Still to come on Central News , the murder that will not die . |
| 9 | The mind that can not conceive the benefits to accrue by a coming together and a binding by paternal ties of a people having common sympathy must be wayward indeed . |
| 10 | It is well known that things can happen in the mind that can not happen elsewhere . |
| 11 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 12 | Your parents hate it and would gladly lynch this band rather than let them dabble with your adolescent hormones that ca n't help wanting to shag them senseless in a vat of cold custard . |
| 13 | ‘ Those units that will not join will be treated as enemies . |
| 14 | ENJOY A SANDWICH THAT WO N'T MAKE YOU SPREAD |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc has sent its third-generation Viking plans out to bid with the various semiconductor houses : this thing is supposed to be a very high-end piece that wo n't turn into product for another three to five years . |
| 16 | THE CAR THAT WOULD N'T SQUEAL |
| 17 | When you get called out at 2am and it 's pouring with rain , the last thing you want is a car that wo n't start . |
| 18 | What 's the point of a car that wo n't start ? ’ |
| 19 | 4-Star ( minimum octane of 97 ) is a leaded petrol for cars that can not use one of the two unleaded grades . |
| 20 | We used to say that the counsel gave some very tacky performances that would n't stand up to cross-examination from Michael Denison ( star of the 1948 law courts drama , The Blind Goddess ) . |
| 21 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 22 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |
| 23 | it 's same with a Samsung , I end up sometimes putting it in the Toshiba one , to re-wind it back , but I 've had some funny tapes I have just lately , it 's the tape that wo n't re-wind , because how I 've noticed been the tape like , cos I 've put it in the Toshiba and re-wound , but it would n't even re-wind in the Toshiba , so Arthur says well he says that 's the tapes |
| 24 | Discover that forgot to pack corkscrew , tea-towels , book of 101 Interesting Walks , storybook about Bear That Ca n't Play Piano , contraceptives . |
| 25 | As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times , the months that ca n't make up their minds . |
| 26 | Knill added that although the commercial and strategic logic for the Thorp project had collapsed with the end of the cold war , it might still be needed to help nations that could not cope with their own nuclear waste . |
| 27 | ( Strictly speaking , ‘ current ’ is a jargon term that need not indicate present time , as the example in the next section shows . ) |
| 28 | Furthermore , a dense , hypertext , semantic network , from which a single printed document was to arise , would include many transition paragraphs that would not appear in the printed document . |
| 29 | Do check therefore that you use fabric that will not shrink . |
| 30 | So , sometimes we get this feeling of empathy and do things with a horse that would not seem to be wise or sensible ; but we ‘ know ’ that it will be all right , and it is ! |