Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He is now talking of going to the theatre tonight with some American widow friend passing through Edinburgh , as I said I felt I should not in case I coughed .
2 Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’
3 I realised from your earlier letter that you might not in fact have yourself read the DNB article on , so I enclose a xerox .
4 In this way people who would not in fact have been risky themselves , because of personal or background circumstances which they share with genuine bad payers , join those bad payers in a ‘ credit ghetto ’ where credit — if they can get it at all — costs too much .
5 You will not in future , if you are to remain with us , allow any papers of mine entrusted to you to pass out of your care .
6 Establish that , and you can not in fairness deny the same right to wives at home with children , be their husbands company directors or on the dole themselves .
7 For example , in InteWord you can list the directory of files available from the Storage sub-menu while you can not in InteCalc .
8 These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code .
9 The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced .
10 We can not in justice omit to mention the establishing of the Publick Botanick Garden at Chelsea by the Worshipful Company of the Apothecaries of London , not only for the instruction of such as should be employed in the compounding of medicines , in the particular simples therein used ( which alone is a very laudable design ) but also for introducing still a greater variety of trees and plants , which although their virtues or uses are not at present known , yet may hereinafter be found of excellent use for many purposes in life .
11 We can not in justice defend it and it does not make any financial sense — to use a good accountant 's term , it is imprudent .
12 Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole .
13 We can not in fact count the number of monomer units in a chain and we must remember that , even if we could , this number would be very unlikely to be the same for all chains .
14 There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line .
15 Things which we take for granted as routine in the U.K. one can not in Spain .
16 Messy though this arrangement may be , I think that , on balance , it is unavoidable , for one can not in reality separate the scientist from the man .
17 Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating .
18 The main objective , if they could not in fact capture Balliol , was to frighten him , give him warning to keep away from Scotland in future , and show Dacre and the North of England generally that if they aided Edward Plantagenet , they were vulnerable to dire reprisals .
19 On the other hand , local governments use their budgets directly to fix tax levels , the essential point being that they can not in law tax for a budget deficit .
20 But although organic molecules are the essential components of modern living things , they can not in isolation be considered living .
21 He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all .
22 I wondered as we strolled across the lawn whether he might not in fact turn out to be the last King of Tonga , the final member of a brief and moderately distinguished dynasty .
23 It is to prevent circuity of action , inasmuch as if the released debtor were still liable to an action for contribution by his co-debtor ( who had been sued and had paid ) , he would not in fact be released : North v. Wakefield , 13 Q.B .
24 It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it .
25 ( See re Barry Artist [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 1305 , where the court stated that it would not in future accept an informal decision to reduce share capital . )
26 If the court concludes that a plaintiff will take advantage of National Health Service facilities because no other suitable facilities will be available , it will not award him damages for the cost of notional private facilities that he will not in fact use .
27 Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false .
28 It can not in reality be a rational actor in the game-theory sense of having a fixed order of priorities in its policy goals .
29 Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children .
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