Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its primary spokesman suggested that guarantees could be given that Afghanistan would not become a base for foreign powers . |
| 2 | Where Foster and old Mond might not get on so well is in the argument of research-driven v market-driven advance . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , this Veronica wo n't put up with this — comes round the theatre between shows one night — really drunk — really — I do n't like that in a woman — and she 's swearing and effing and blinding — big shout-up with Steenie — going to tell his wife , all that . |
| 4 | , 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 |
| 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 | However , the second paragraph of the reader 's letter about filing on 30 February will not work . |
| 8 | But the movement to the Right took far longer than this implies ; Wordsworth continued to admire Charles James Fox , the Whig leader , although Fox was in favour of making peace with Napoleon , but after visiting France in 1802 Wordsworth could not stomach the Whigs as a party . |
| 9 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 10 | Old Crumwallis wo n't notice I 've had more than his miserly allowance . |
| 11 | How they had got onto this Wilson could not remember , but Mrs Browning was the more worried . |
| 12 | The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it . |
| 13 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 14 | But this Martha could not answer . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 18 | But for some reason old Stuart ca n't get over it . |
| 19 | The British could leave and half India would n't notice us leaving just as they did n't notice us arriving . |
| 20 | This Nicholas would not allow : for it would be an interference , he maintained , with the duties of parents , godparents and parish priests . |
| 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 | ‘ Right now this Capricorn ca n't wait to get one particular little Virgo into his bed — and do some research of his own ! ’ |
| 24 | With mid-summer approaching , it is hardly the time to reflect on winter festivals , but the success of the kids Christmas party in the canteen on 15th December could not pass without a mention . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | To see this , we first observe that , if θ = l the cost decreases ( ) so the preceding BFS can not recur . |
| 30 | When , which means , as we saw above , we shall show that increases , so the preceding BFS can not recur in this case , either , since and are uniquely determined by the basis ( and ) . |