Example sentences of "it [modal v] [not/n't] now be " in BNC.

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1 While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code .
2 ‘ with the return of our men from the Services and the increase in the staff , necessitated by the great expansion of our new business , it may not now be so easy to keep in such intimate touch with each other .
3 But , as it was built , it should not now be demolished .
4 When you have done a few problems , as above , it should not now be necessary to divide the large boxes into small ones to find the volume .
5 Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length .
6 It would not now be possible in one volume to do any kind of justice to so many .
7 They received your invoice late because it was sent late and it wo n't now be paid until next month .
8 Because Labour was once against Europe , it can not now be for Europe .
9 Because it was once the party of nationalisation , it can not now be the party of the small shareholder .
10 The constitution of the convention is such that it can not now be amended .
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