Example sentences of "[modal v] not [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 32 | I could not possibly visualise home being home without Mother 's presence . |
| 33 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to call on David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price the Foundation charges for a licence : it says the Foundation is now redoing its sums . |
| 34 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price OSF charges for a licence : it says OSF is now doing its sums . |
| 35 | For example , we would often go on expeditions to Hay-on-Wye looking for French , nineteenth-century pattern books but if you found any yourself you could not possibly claim originality . |
| 36 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 37 | Many of the benefits of programmes , or decision units , were unable to be quantified so that the ranking process could not always take place . |
| 38 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 39 | He could not now imagine life on the headland without either of them . |
| 40 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |
| 41 | According to The Hindu of March 31 , Lal had acted in order to pre-empt a possible move by Singh to remove Chauthala from the party and also in order to convey a message to the Prime Minister that any action against his son " could not only evoke resistance but provoke counterattacks " . |
| 42 | The spending need not exactly match income ; we can each save or enter into debt . |
| 43 | Firstly , input at the next highest level need not only contain information at that level , since if the user understands the message then automatically the next stage is provided . |
| 44 | Simplicity need not always mean economy , but it has traditionally created a bias towards the single-purpose system , which allows concentration on point-design performance , as opposed to the multipurpose system common to Western inventories , which demands complicated and sophisticated design solutions . |
| 45 | It need not necessarily reduce fishing effort , but it is about making people in the fishing industry unemployed . |
| 46 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 47 | Again , it is worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; communication of the relevant information is all that is required . |
| 48 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 49 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 50 | If molluscan shells can decrease in size , then growth rates of mulluscs could be overestimated and growth annuli would not reliably estimate age . |
| 51 | The 1982 health dispute served notice that the Government would not easily give way in a strike . |
| 52 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 53 | For example , the use by the householder of a room as an office would not normally require permission . |
| 54 | Consequently , 20 smaller cities and their surrounds , which would not normally have access to world-class exhibitions , would have a permanent , but changing , Prado exhibition . |
| 55 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 56 | As a result , the body would not normally receive light during the critical period , but it would do so if the patient stayed awake all night or got up early . |
| 57 | The EC Agriculture Commissioner , Raymond MacSharry , said that the EC would not completely eliminate export subsidies , as such a policy would drive " 3,000,000-4,000,000 farmers out of business " . |
| 58 | If Gooch is dropped then there will be plenty of debate over his replacement as captain and it may be that Gatting 's experience will gain the vote over Stewart , though I would not completely discount Moxon . |
| 59 | In the view of the applicants in the main proceedings , a residence requirement would not automatically infringe article 52 . |
| 60 | Each major opera company in this country has an outreach and education programme and the Arts Council 's touring programme supports clients who take opera to areas of the country which would not otherwise have access to it . |