Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 2 | Without it , any 100th-birthday binge in 1998 may not find New Yorkers in much of a party mood . |
| 3 | It may be that the examiner disagrees with the candidate in his answer to ( i ) , and although that may not affect the candidate 's marks on ( i ) , the candidate will lose the marks on ( ii ) if he does not deal with it . |
| 4 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
| 5 | That may not bother him because it was in Christchurch that he had his Ireland tour brought to a premature end last year by a punch from Canterbury 's Andy Earl which broke his jaw . |
| 6 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 7 | Now that may not go quite as far as as as would would favour . |
| 8 | that may not have involved , been involved in a cash economy . |
| 9 | While that may not sound brilliant for the performance , it should be borne in mind that the 300E-24 saloon , weighing the best part of 500lb less and with a four-speed automatic 'box , achieved 18.8mpg while on test . |
| 10 | Again , that may not sound much but it 's more than enough to disrupt the delicate balance of different gases . |
| 11 | That may not sound like the most exciting plot you have ever heard but every MP in the Commons seemed to think it was better than Indiana Jones , The Terminator and Alien rolled into one . |
| 12 | That may not sound very imposing , but it represented a major advance . |
| 13 | That may not sound a lot but Wordbase Personal is just £84+VAT while Professional is £380+VAT . |
| 14 | ’ That may not sound like much , but when you 're selling suits at £900 and dresses at £2,000 , losing just one or two items can really eat into your profits . |
| 15 | On the other hand , all Same and Lamborghini engines undergo an initial running-in process in the factory at Treviglio , so that may not happen . |
| 16 | But that may not happen soon … so the Tajiks … with extraordinary commitment are building a school for their children … with their bare hands . |
| 17 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 18 | But even that may not help as the worker may be waylaid by those who have ‘ just come in for a form ’ or an address or have to collect their children from school in five minutes . |
| 19 | But that may not help much either . |
| 20 | Well he might just have got out of bed , that may not help . |
| 21 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 22 | What will emerge from Alpine may not have the sprint car look , nor the integral tonneau or open-to-the-elements driving position but it will have most of Laguna 's mechanicals . |
| 23 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 24 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |
| 25 | Further , members of MAS should not conclude on the appropriateness of a course of action under consideration ; the firm must maintain an independent and objective attitude throughout the engagement . |
| 26 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 27 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |
| 28 | That must n't happen . ’ |
| 29 | From the look he gave her she thought that must n't happen often . |
| 30 | ‘ That must n't happen , ’ the old man said . |