Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 2 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 3 | Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here . |
| 4 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 5 | Although this questionnaire was based upon insights from case studies of self-evaluation in Solihull secondary schools , it was of course inevitable that some Solihull teachers might not consider that it asked what were , for them , the most pertinent questions . |
| 6 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 7 | Nozick anyway could not hold that it does , because his position relies on the independent proof it provides that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 8 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 9 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 10 | It was all necessary , no doubt , but with all the optimism of his youth he could n't see that it looked promising . |
| 11 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 12 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 13 | She could n't believe that it had all stopped , the misery , the anguish , the self-recrimination . |
| 14 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 15 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 16 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 17 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 18 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
| 19 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 20 | They would n't exist if it had n't been for him . |
| 21 | You would n't come if it bothered you . |
| 22 | Either in principle , or in detailed allocation , but would n't object if it went somewhere else . |
| 23 | He would n't notice that it had gone . |
| 24 | And I would n't have if it had n't been for my mother … |
| 25 | A CLASSIC example of schizophrenic movie-making at its worst , this paralysingly confused account of the birth of modern gangsterism ca n't decide whether it wants to be a hard-hitting action pic , a gooey teen idol vehicle or a convoluted docudrama . |
| 26 | I ca n't do that it feeds back that 's a shame is n't it . |
| 27 | In heavy rain , the system ca n't cope and it floods . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't see that it makes any difference . |
| 29 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , I really ca n't see that it matters one way or the other what I think , ’ Alison said . |