Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 5 | Now that may not go quite as far as as as would would favour . |
| 6 | that may not have involved , been involved in a cash economy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Again , that may not sound much but it 's more than enough to disrupt the delicate balance of different gases . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That may not sound very imposing , but it represented a major advance . |
| 11 | That may not sound a lot but Wordbase Personal is just £84+VAT while Professional is £380+VAT . |
| 12 | ’ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But that may not happen soon … so the Tajiks … with extraordinary commitment are building a school for their children … with their bare hands . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But that may not help much either . |
| 18 | Well he might just have got out of bed , that may not help . |
| 19 | That must n't happen . ’ |
| 20 | From the look he gave her she thought that must n't happen often . |
| 21 | ‘ That must n't happen , ’ the old man said . |
| 22 | ‘ That must n't happen — where is she , do you know ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That must n't happen to me ! ’ |
| 24 | If you do n't go this minute I 'll go straight home with you , and that must n't happen yet . |
| 25 | But Dr David Shanson , a senior consultant microbiologist at the Westminster hospital , says even if surgeons are infected , that should n't matter unless they 're incapable of operating . |
| 26 | That should n't go like that . |
| 27 | You have n't signed it Steve , and you 've got to sign it , because really , just have a look at your management , that should n't arrive here like that . |
| 28 | That should n't relate to all you RUNNING readers who have followed Bruce Tulloh 's training schedules thoroughly and not just turned up on the day , unprepared and with no training under your belt . |
| 29 | Rossendale Group 's chairperson Kate Conbay-Greenwood said she ‘ realised that this would not be the easiest area of Amnesty 's work to publicise , but that should n't deter us from truing to raise awareness ( of Jehovah 's Witnesses in Greece ) . ’ |
| 30 | An eighth of an inch of rain overnight but that should n't make any difference at all but a wet windy day . |