Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 2 | Their patronage may not launch you to instant international attention , but they might help to raise the takings at your next gig in the junior Common Room or village hall , simply by listing the date , time and place . |
| 3 | At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days . |
| 4 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 5 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 6 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 7 | ‘ The professor would n't send anyone to their death like that . ’ |
| 8 | If you like swinging in the dark — the club would not allow you to be consistent . |
| 9 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 10 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 11 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 12 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 13 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 14 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 15 | The judge can not say them to a member of the family over breakfast , or in a country where the death penalty has been abolished . |
| 16 | A more relevant criticism is that manifesto promises may not address themselves to the country 's real problems . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , her husband could not reconcile himself to having married a commoner and even taught their sons to be disrespectful to her when they were young . |
| 18 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 19 | The family persuaded Ken not to attend the inquest at Hammersmith Coroner 's Court , in the hope that the name Charlie Williams would n't mean anything to the Press . |
| 20 | The government remained reluctant to recognize UNITA until it agreed to end its destabilization campaign , while UNITA would not commit itself to ending hostilities until its future political role was guaranteed . |
| 21 | ‘ The name would n't mean anything to you . ’ |
| 22 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 23 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 24 | This emphasis will not commend itself to the English reader whom Herbert Schniedau envisages . |
| 25 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 26 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |
| 27 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 28 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 29 | That the nomination of Boys to the School shall be made fairly and without favouritism and that the Corporation shall not permit them to be influenced by political considerations , whether arising out of local or general politics . |
| 30 | A lot of people wo n't commit themselves to that kind of thing . |