Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | pathetic , it 's gon na freeze up again this afternoon down at Bournemouth , gon na have fish off the pier , go for some bees , but I could n't be bothered but there was nothing , it was too damn cold , it must of been minus five with the wind chill factor |
| 2 | Cos I could n't be bothered and I was n't dressed and it would be going all over to south London . |
| 3 | I could not be bled and have been dealt more than a hundred blows so that I got a thorough grinding . ) |
| 4 | I would n't be suprised if he scores nearer 20 than 10 goals by the end of the season . |
| 5 | It meant I would n't be perceived as another girl singer — and I could set the look and feel and energy of what I was about . ’ |
| 6 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 7 | His ca n't be traced because he does n't have a licence for it . ’ |
| 8 | Always plenty of room I ca n't be bothered cos I 've got to give Foxy his shorts |
| 9 | I mean I like dancing and music but I like to have a chat with , I ca n't , I ca n't be bothered if I ca n't chat properly because you ca n't hear yourself |
| 10 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 11 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a big game for me , but I will not be overawed as I 'm not the nervous type . |
| 13 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 14 | I wo n't be offended if you ca n't make it . ’ |
| 15 | I know you avoid this sort of thing , so I wo n't be offended if you do n't want to tell me . ’ |
| 16 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 17 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 18 | Anger , which may not be expressed because of personality factors , such as excessive control , or fear of the consequences . |
| 19 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 20 | This viewed criminal behaviour not as freely willed action but ( either metaphorically or literally ) as a symptom of some kind of mental illness which should not be punished but ‘ treated ’ like an illness . |
| 21 | This competence is a huge resource which should not be ignored but made explicit . |
| 22 | So that was where mother had kept all that string from parcels which must not be discarded lest it be needed . |
| 23 | I wanted to show the break that she made under the pressure which could not be ignored or left without a response . |
| 24 | Athelstan remembered Foreman 's words — how the lady who had visited his shop had bought a poison which could not be traced or smelt yet would stop the heart . |
| 25 | Her a very pale grey pastel was dragged over orange , giving a lovely luminous effect which could not be achieved if the two colours were blended together with the finger . |
| 26 | It will also contain a report of any modules present in the work area which could not be entered because : |
| 27 | All the emphasis , she felt , must be on this coming as an order which could not be disobeyed and yet put in such a way as not to be offensive . |
| 28 | Arguments against allowing access included that people would not write frankly if they knew their comments would be seen , it could be important to record facts which could not be proved and suspicions or impressions , the child or parent might be made unhappy by a teacher 's judgement and it might impair the relationship or discourage the child , and access would lead to constant arguments about fairness or relevance of information . |
| 29 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 30 | It turned out that mechanically drilled small holes in plywood were fringed on the inside with a little coronet of splinters which could not be removed because it could usually neither be seen nor reached . |