Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like , sort of thefts of motor vehicles , we can reduce the theft of the actual vehicle , because there are security devices now to do that , to make it harder and you can not odds somebody coming along the street , throwing a brick through a window and grabbing your cassette out . |
| 2 | She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death . |
| 3 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 4 | As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ . |
| 5 | But what will not ambition and revenge |