Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish can not swim fast enough for long enough and so can not porpoise — but they do not need to surface for air and so can swim at depth to reduce drag . |
| 2 | Statute and Common Law Alone Can not Control Nations |
| 3 | Well , you know I just ca n't sort of let it go on . |
| 4 | I just ca n't Lauren . |
| 5 | Dr Robert Answers your queries From the hum that just wo n't buck , to the buck that barely hums … |
| 6 | Well then should n't fathers think about it before they produce the children ? |
| 7 | Samuel Sharp in his History of Stamford of 1847 says : ‘ It is most likely … that certain localities … were set apart by the Druids for the assemblage of their pupils and disciples : and why may not Stamford be one of these ? ’ |
| 8 | And why must n't Phena know anything about them ? |
| 9 | The court can not attach a meaning to words which they can not bear , but if the words are capable of bearing more than one meaning why should not Parliament 's true intention be enforced rather than thwarted ? |
| 10 | Yet if they were referring to a legitimate title , why should not Pilate have been doing so as well ? |
| 11 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |
| 12 | Why should not people do as they pleased with their own bodies ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why should not Englishmen arm themselves ? ’ he asked . |
| 14 | Why should n't Sally look nice too ? ’ |
| 15 | Why should n't tramps sleep in cafés ? |
| 16 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 17 | Washington , Jefferson and six other Virginians besides have led our nation ; so why should n't President Charles Sherman in about thirty-five years ' time — say round about nineteen sixty — be sitting in the White House ? |
| 18 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 19 | I mean I may maybe decriminalization is part of that but I , as someone said why sho , why should n't people take er , drugs if they want to , they 're allowed to take other drugs ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why should n't people have an activity or hobby which causes no harm to anyone , and does n't hurt the fish , ’ says Mr Houghton . |
| 21 | But why should n't feminists play with language for political ends ? |
| 22 | Why should n't Gay come to Sunset Cottage , and sink or swim with them ? |
| 23 | Why should , why should n't Annie and me mum ? |
| 24 | ‘ That couple crossed the line and lived together — why should n't Gittel and I ? ’ |
| 25 | ’ Why should n't celebrities get something out of it ? |
| 26 | What this adds up to , then , is the claim that if there existed an organism which either could not act or whose actions made no difference to its perceptions then not only would that organism not be cognisant , it could never become cognisant . |
| 27 | Why , he thought , why could n't Blagg have gone out of town , to some place he knew , like Hereford or … |
| 28 | Why could n't Lee keep his mouth shut ? |
| 29 | Now why , why could n't Philip have prayed for the people ? |
| 30 | Why could n't Philip pray for them ? |