Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judith Taylor , district health promotions officer , said : ‘ Preventative work is very difficult because everyone thinks accidents wo n't happen to them . |
| 2 | I say wonders will never cease I have just written a receipt for Mrs and I have put it in her envelope and I have written my name in , in on , I 've put from and put my name and crossed out caretaker and put treasurer and I have put underneath we do not have a caretaker so we will see what happens How did , how is it that they got to go back with them ? |
| 3 | But Hugh Dykes , MP for Harrow East , said : ‘ I hope politicians will not go overboard and seek to bring in tough laws to curb the press . |
| 4 | ‘ And someone asking questions might just jog his memory . ’ |
| 5 | I have not done that before in my career , but I knew things would not happen for us without action being taken . |
| 6 | I think mothers should also take note of this case . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish writers would not write such annoying letters to me . |
| 8 | I wish crows would n't do that . |
| 9 | Gail Vines and Michael Barnes refer in their article ‘ Hypnosis on trial ’ ( 6 January , p 12 ) to an experiment by J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle in the 1930s in which hypnotised subjects could blithely recite the Longfellow poem The Village Smith , confidently inserting their own words for forgotten lines or verses . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean poets may not have tempers , do you not ? ’ |
| 11 | Those who despise fictions will presumably admire Wordsworth 's fidelity to fact in line 1 . |
| 12 | What makes you think women ca n't do that kind of work ? ’ |
| 13 | But there was sometimes another logical reason for resisting change , although the people who proposed improvements could never admit it . |
| 14 | Yeah , miles better , for the good of the country they 're not good for you , women should n't have the vote you know women should n't get the vote , I think they should bring back , bring back just men having vote , women do n't get a say as far as I 'm concerned that 's a good idea do n't you think ? |
| 15 | Those who rule states must always consider the ideological acceptability of their policies to their own people , as well as to people in other countries . |
| 16 | Research evidence shows that people who become go-betweens can not tell the difference between margarine and butter . |
| 17 | She kept the card to herself because she knew others would not understand . |
| 18 | The Medicines Information Bill is founded on two main principles : that those who keep secrets should not have the last word on where secrecy begins and ends and that openness should be the rule and secrecy the exception . |
| 19 | Just when you think things ca n't get any worse … |
| 20 | You see painters could n't start till nine , till the sun got up you know |
| 21 | At Cow & Gate , we believe babies should always drink their greens . |
| 22 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 23 | ‘ They believe girls should not speak up and that they should let their parents control their lives . |
| 24 | The Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) survey found all manner of weird and wonderful reasons given by husbands as to why they thought women could not do their jobs . |
| 25 | ‘ They thought children could n't cope with ambiguity , ’ John says . |
| 26 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 27 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 28 | he control circuits must therefore attend to the timing and sequencing of the phase excitation , as well as recording the motor 's position relative to the target . |
| 29 | It seems children ca n't resist them : |
| 30 | Asked if he thought Americans would now want to play more in Europe , Faldo demurred on their behalf . |