Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MONEY may not buy you love , but do n't tell Graeme Souness it ca n't buy you soccer success . |
| 2 | Giving an employee more money may not motivate him/her if that individual needs to satisfy the desire for respect and the esteem of colleagues . |
| 3 | I ca n't see why the ordinary housewife should n't do it . ’ |
| 4 | A National Curriculum must not enforce one rigid , prescriptive role on teachers , but allow them freedom to develop their own initiatives . |
| 5 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 6 | Any change must not make it easier for a defendant to escape conviction for murder in cases where there is a planned or revenge killing . |
| 7 | It is wrong that other SERC competitors for money should not get it because international high-energy physics is . |
| 8 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 9 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 10 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 11 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is right that faith should not need its followers to pray for the dead … |
| 13 | The retailer should not sell you the first slice and the second cut should be of a bright , usually pink colour . |
| 14 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 15 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 16 | Their patronage may not launch you to instant international attention , but they might help to raise the takings at your next gig in the junior Common Room or village hall , simply by listing the date , time and place . |
| 17 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 18 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 19 | The existence of judicial balancing should not lead us to conclude that all such balancing is necessarily premised on the same assumptions . |
| 20 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 21 | Mind do n't spill the tea should n't make it so bloody |
| 22 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 23 | The relaxation of the rule excluding parliamentary material as an aid to the construction of statutes deserves to be welcomed on the basis that the judiciary should not deny themselves whatever assistance may be derived from such material . |
| 24 | But in theory cycling should n't give you very strong leg muscles . |
| 25 | He has ruled that the club should not employ anyone from a nation which fought against us . |
| 26 | However , the need for more practice should not prevent us , as it so often does , from listening to that same melody when it is played by our more popular rivals . |
| 27 | However , the fact that the defence may resort to procedural tactics or that the weakness of some investigations may become apparent under re-investigation should not lead us to reject a formal mechanism of quality control . |
| 28 | The President might not want them , but sense , and democracy , required it ; so while part of the NSC was on fire with the President 's wishes , another part was turning out position papers of a hopeless and reasonable kind . |
| 29 | At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days . |
| 30 | The conclusive proof that the horse was being unconsciously cued by the questioner emerged when it was shown that if the questioner was ignorant of the answer to the question , the horse could not provide one either . |