Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb mod] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams beneath sleep it can not break . |
| 2 | Beyond that , Softlab is n't giving anything away : US rules say it may not discuss talks until agreement is won . |
| 3 | One possible pointer is that , when asked , people say it will not rise a lot . |
| 4 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 5 | On the conscious level , sexuality was to me only one of the responsibilities of adulthood : as far the sexual act itself was concerned , I simply did n't want to know , as a child who is exposed to sexual information at an age when she/he feels incapable of absorbing it will not want to know . |
| 6 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 7 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 8 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 9 | So agriculture will have to play a role in that and therefore we want to increase agricultural output and in order to do that you want to protect the middle and rich peasants who are the most efficient producers , or I E managerial farms if , if they are more efficient , you want to , if you want it would not make sense to take land away from rich peasants in order to give to poor peasants when rich peasants might be more efficient producers . |
| 10 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister says it may not happen this summer . |
| 12 | The cuts are part of a major shake-up at the laboratory which employs 1,300 staff and the company says it can not rule out more job losses . |
| 13 | Company says it can not rule out more job losses after a review of technical and administrative staff has been completed . |
| 14 | It says it can not get or keep skilled labour . |
| 15 | The Brazilian government , apparently unaware of the huge unrealised economic asset going up in flames across the Amazon , says it can not afford to preserve the rainforest because it needs economic development . |
| 16 | The local authority , the only one of England 's 366 councils still without a plan , says it can not afford the £10,000 cost and that the government 's recycling policy is " grandiose " but ineffective . |
| 17 | Langbaurgh Council says it can not afford to protest . |
| 18 | Darlington Council says it can not afford to celebrate the 150th anniversary of North Road station due to its ‘ extremely difficult ’ financial situation . |
| 19 | Oxfordshire 's Health Authority says it can not afford £200,000 each year to keep it going . |
| 20 | Oxford Health Authority says it can not afford the £200,000 each year to keep it going . |
| 21 | Samsung , which has its workstation division in San Jose , California , says it will not compete directly with Hewlett-Packard , but instead develop new markets in areas such as imaging and scientific visualisation . |
| 22 | It says it will not apply for the label for its hairspray because the standards would allow virtually any manufacturer to claim environmental virtue . |
| 23 | Despite rumours to the contrary , Sun says it will not discontinue Sparcstation 2s , which still represent a nice piece of change . |
| 24 | To ease the new channel 's birth , the ITC has decided it need not achieve any more than 30 per cent coverage of the country in its first year . |
| 25 | This will be true whatever the value of γ 1 ; therefore whatever value of γ 1 is selected it can not make the distinction between aggregate and relative demand shocks any less important . |
| 26 | ‘ You imagine it will not linger in your mind like a lost tune ? |
| 27 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 28 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 29 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
| 30 | I hope it will not prove an utterly hateful letter . |