Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb mod] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really should not be surprised by this , thought McAllister , fuming . |
| 2 | I really can not be bothered . |
| 3 | I really can not be doing with Algeria |
| 4 | Oh it was when we were gon na go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no , I really can not be bothered , it 's just pouring down with rain , had |
| 5 | the answer , I really can not be fucked . |
| 6 | And I certainly would not be there to confirm or deny it . |
| 7 | I too can not be earthbound . |
| 8 | Another contributor , however , says that ‘ Maharishi lays so much stress on the sound value of the mantra , and its vibratory effect , that without it , you just would not be practising TM . ’ |
| 9 | You just CAN NOT be serious , man ! |
| 10 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 11 | You probably will not be able to cope with all of them without feeling deprived . |
| 12 | Mary said she really could not be bothered . |
| 13 | The old lady looked at me in wonder and said , ‘ Nobody has ever asked me that before , but if you really would not be too cross I would rather you did not . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You really can not be trusted , can you ? ’ |
| 15 | If this is all she thinks , she surely can not be considered Christian . |
| 16 | You simply may not be able to afford to retire , however much you may want to . |
| 17 | Right , and you simply may not be able to switch into milk production or horticulture , because you do n't have the technological know-how , or the soil may be inappropriate , the climate may be inappropriate , right , so that 's another factor , influencing , well making er , supply quite rigid , quite inflexible in , in the short run . |
| 18 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 19 | I see , so so a way of seeing stars that you otherwise would not be able to see at all . |
| 20 | By all means work to emphasize your positive qualities and to control your weak points , but if you put on an act you are almost bound to get caught out and you certainly will not be able to relax . |
| 21 | And you certainly will not be able to demonstrate these things by relying on your own introspections ! |
| 22 | After building your own machine you certainly will not be worried about opening the box ! |
| 23 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 24 | Similarly , science may describe what electricity , gravity or radiation do and we can use them reliably in practical applications , but we still may not be able to describe precisely what they are . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture . |
| 26 | The actual operations in Burma are undertaken by the State-run ‘ Tourist Burma ’ — over whom we have no control — and we therefore can not be held liable or accept claims for damages resulting from changes , diversions , delays or cuts . |
| 27 | They alone would not be enough to account for the clumpiness on intermediate scales that studies of the sky reveal ; but there is a way to amplify their effects . |
| 28 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 29 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 30 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |