Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 2 | With this end in view the United States could not afford to be seen by the USSR as firmly aligned with Great Britain . |
| 3 | TRAGIC LUCY CA N'T GO TO SCHOOL WITH PALS |
| 4 | Mister Johnny ca n't bear to be teased , really ca n't bear it ] It sends him into a terrible rage . |
| 5 | Bob Kernohan would not object to being called a very conservative Conservative . |
| 6 | Gazza can not wait to be one of them again . |
| 7 | It is trying to assert itself politically , offering money the PLO can not match to young , educated Gazans to join the Islamist movement . |
| 8 | In this case , Sheila might not agree to Mark 's removal , but she might compromise over periods of respite care with his grandmother , which would satisfy the paediatrician 's concerns . |
| 9 | In his electoral speeches , Boris Yeltsin had emphasised that the president of Russia should not belong to a political party . |
| 10 | The young man , whose name was Merbury , was eager and inexperienced , and took it for granted , as an honest man well might , that his story of complete and shattering victory , of the capture of so many of the active nobility of Scotland , and of a bright lustre added to the name of Percy and of England could not fail to be pleasing to his sovereign . |
| 11 | Then Lissa would n't need to be around so much , would she ? ’ |
| 12 | But Turner would n't rise to that . |
| 13 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 14 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 15 | It was to be the stumbling block ; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain , while so long as they remained , Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance . |
| 16 | Even Ramsbum ca n't object to that . ’ |
| 17 | That is why the TGWU will not invite to any of its meetings in the House any Member of Parliament who is not also a Labour party member . |
| 18 | The Russian President , Boris Yeltsin , has sent a message to Mr. Major saying that Russia will not return to totalitarian rule . |
| 19 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 20 | Russia can not afford to be flanked by newly nuclear states on its southern borders ; or to allow the ethnic strife in and between ex-Soviet republics to turn nuclear ; or to see extremists among its own fissiparous peoples demand independence on pain of nuclear terrorism . |
| 21 | He smiled again , but Theda could not respond to an overture she felt to be false . |
| 22 | Obviously Patterson could n't run to that . ’ |
| 23 | Despite Zenith continuing to represent an unspecified percentage of Bull 's losses for 1992 , Pache would not commit to any drastic changes in that area . |
| 24 | Alain would not speak to her . |
| 25 | Realistic as ever skipper Peter Wilson will not accede to the pundits who say the championship is his already . |
| 26 | Seduced by all things fine and feudal , Meridon will not come to her senses until she returns , like an avenging O'Hara to her Tara , to the land . |
| 27 | ‘ Because the last voyage made no profit , Princess wo n't go to sea again until more money can be found to buy all things needful for a fresh voyage . |
| 28 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 29 | Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties . |
| 30 | A man as big as Steen should n't have to be involved with little second-rate crooks like Bill Sweet . |