Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] [not/n't] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was a shadow of his former self and a boxer can not go into the ring semi-fit . |
| 2 | ‘ What 'll we do ? ’ asked Tim after a short silence ; even he had to admit that a lady would not go away leaving behind all her credit cards and a wad of paper money . |
| 3 | As Lorelei Lee said immemorably in Diamonds Are a Girl 's Best Friend , a girl ca n't go on laughing all the time . |
| 4 | But just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow … so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow caused by a downturn in the economy , so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . ’ |
| 6 | A company is not generally liable to tax on distributions , which includes dividends , so prima facie a distribution will not go to reduce Newco 's group relievable losses ( see s208 Taxes Act ) unless it makes an election under s242 . |
| 7 | Such a challenge could not go unheeded , particularly as it departed from the usual array of Parliamentary or constitutional procedures . |
| 8 | The best description I have heard for this position is ‘ well plugged on ’ — a plug will not go into a socket if it is crooked , that is the baby should not be twisting his or her neck . |
| 9 | An apology would n't go amiss . |
| 10 | Rather the company envisages the use of Object Cobol with object-oriented analysis and design , and an analyst will not go into the detail of strings and numbers , but simply view things like accounts and customers as objects . |