Example sentences of "that we [modal v] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It makes me sad , though , to think that we sha n't see Donald Bailey again . ’ |
| 2 | the hundred and fourteen thousand saving is actually expenditure that has n't that we ca n't make this year . |
| 3 | Okay , well I think what we did was erm Right we talked about the list of exclusions , things that we ca n't record because Maureen 's already done them . |
| 4 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 5 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 6 | is that we ca n't move until we know what sort of structure is being offered , the general offer of structure is to take advice because we , we could then but unless we know what is forthcoming we do n't |
| 7 | Erm , I think it , it , in the , obviously to , to support er , the , the that the building going ahead , erm will mean that the case at erm Stansted will be er containable to enabling passengers even if they are passengers erm it will be , will be absorb the public needs o of the area and the runners be erm arrived at after many , many er , er years Council planning erm does think that we ca n't contain that and er it would be possible to resist these rescued if we can remain at the figures that erm have been out at Stansted . |
| 8 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 9 | I think a lot of the shocks that we ca n't cope with just to into the sub-conscious and at some later date we then become neurotic or erm mentally disordered . |
| 10 | There 's no point in asking questions that we ca n't answer . |
| 11 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 12 | It 's an excuse used time and time again that we ca n't do anything because it would be blown up . |
| 13 | It 's just something that we ca n't do I 'm afraid so so we 're on five now |
| 14 | We realize Lord , that we ca n't do it ourself we are totally dependent upon you and yet we thank you for this . |
| 15 | Wh wh what we 're gon na do to a twelve hundred that we ca n't do here . |
| 16 | Erm in so that it 's our fault really that we ca n't give work to our our er people . |
| 17 | It is more passive in the sense that we ca n't interact with a text , we ca n't affect the development of the text by our own words , since the text 's words are already given . |
| 18 | " I er — that is to say we — er — feel that we — well , that we ca n't go on like this . |
| 19 | Surely his death must show you that we ca n't stay hidden any longer . |
| 20 | Even American tourists who are used to all mod cons accept the fact that we ca n't offer absolutely everything . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But the policewoman said that we ca n't leave , ’ said Zanya . |
| 22 | The first one is John Stuart Mill 's objection which is that we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 23 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 24 | And I find that we ca n't ignore that although the male sex is not the enemy — the male sex does benefit from the system . |
| 25 | But erm there 's always things to look forward to in football and yes Oldham 's going to be a good game for us , but we need to win ; then Swindon , our old rivals that we ca n't beat for years . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's what 's happened to Gran that we ca n't bear . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know that we ca n't let this mean anything more than itself , ’ he said at last , ‘ but it has made … you have made me very happy , Julia . |
| 28 | Well you 'll never eliminate leakage because leakage is a global term for water that we ca n't account for . |
| 29 | We do n't use sites , we do n't make planning applications , applicants do but we have to consider that we ca n't say we do n't like it , go elsewhere . |
| 30 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |