Example sentences of "[not/n't] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some rejected his proposed method of procedure and in 1931 Kurt Gödel dashed all hopes by proving that in a consistent system formalising the natural numbers there is a theorem A such that neither A nor not-A can be proved within the system . |
| 2 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 3 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 4 | ‘ You might have a sales order processing system sitting on one computer ; once an order has been processed , it sends a message to an inventory system on another computer , which checks whether the item is there , and if it is initiates the shipment , or if not may request the supply of the item by sending a message to a third system . |
| 5 | As the judge said , no doubt the Ledingham-Smiths were influenced by a desire to retain the accountants ' services , but this did not make the payments a preference in the absence of evidence that they would , not may , benefit the creditor . |
| 6 | It may be harder to keep seeing change as ‘ challenge ’ rather than ‘ threat ’ when the going gets tough , but whether you can or not may say more about the way difficulties are met and the emotional repercussions they generate than about their very existence . |
| 7 | That I can not may have either of two causes . |
| 8 | Whether this chairman goes along with the president or not may turn on many factors , but bargaining is very likely to play a part . |
| 9 | Whether the length of time spent in making these inquiries and the mode in which they are made are reasonable or not may be nice questions . |
| 10 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 11 | Those who do not may find that the facilities of the markets are withheld from them . |
| 12 | And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation . |
| 13 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 14 | My willpower may not may not strong enough for me to do it for long , but , I 've actually , I 've got that choice , to choose to do it , it 's something I do . |
| 15 | Why not let's go back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 16 | Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not . |
| 17 | I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother ! |
| 18 | Er but if not let's move up erm to towards er towards , and this is erm this is the erm former under-bridge at , going up to Mill . |
| 19 | Those who are not must forgive me my momentary lapse into modest mathematical sophistication . |
| 20 | Before the completion of the case for the Crown , the decision whether to continue or not must be that of the prosecution . |
| 21 | The decision whether to work or not must depend on each woman 's circumstances , abilities and finances . |
| 22 | I hope that my hon. Friend agrees that , if , we are to stop young people inhaling smoke unintentionally and passively in public places such as restaurants and railway carriages , the physical segregation between areas where people are allowed to smoke and those where they are not must be far better . |
| 23 | Indeed , perhaps the most sensible thing that that model of of consistency , Ki Neil Kinnock , has said this year was , law makers must not must not be law breakers . |
| 24 | What on a motor like that , no surely not must |
| 25 | Those who do not should be escorted to a suitable room where another member of staff should remain with them if possible , if they wish for this . |
| 26 | Consumers who can manage credit should be able to get it , and those who can not should not . |
| 27 | Some of them will be answered in the lecture but those that are not should be asked at an appropriate point . |
| 28 | The decision to induce or not should be discussed , and if possible the woman 's views respected . |
| 29 | Part of the decision as to whether to justify text or not should rest on the type of product that is being produced . |
| 30 | Good companies knew the value of training and built in funding for that to their budgets ; those that did not should have to pay a levy . |