Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britten and William Plomer , his librettist , must have known instinctively that an opera celebrating the most masterful sovereign in English history nevertheless could not offer a modern ( even a Coronation ) audience Good Queen Bess or Schiller 's avenging spitfire . |
| 2 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 3 | Cookstown sprung into life after this and although they played some flowing football they just could not penetrate a resolute Ballymoney defence until that is the 40th minute when a bad blunder from the Ballymoney goalkeeper Merchant presented Alan Shaw with a simple tap in from only five yards . |
| 4 | He just could n't get a decent length to putt to fall , and I felt it was getting to him . |
| 5 | bloody hell , shuffling like a buggery here , I just ca n't make a bloody hand |
| 6 | Tony , 47 , who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night , just ca n't resist a good time . |
| 7 | You just ca n't keep a good man down even if he is only five foot seven . |
| 8 | Hereford just ca n't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that . |
| 9 | He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him , but there was no mistaking his dimensions . |
| 10 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |
| 11 | And you still ca n't get a good daily woman now to clean , not for love or money . |
| 12 | I still ca n't get a clear definition on the true meaning of it all . |
| 13 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 14 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 15 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 16 | Still , too much detail is better than not enough , and the experienced user probably wo n't read a fat lot of the manual anyway . |
| 17 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 18 | but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’ |
| 19 | As is the case with its farming and defence policies , the current budgetary arrangements of the EEC simply could not survive a substantial enlargement of the Community . |
| 20 | Male disco boppers who , judging by their blank faces as they endlessly crash-land nose first at bemused singer Greg Acknell 's knees or into mic stands , simply could n't give a flying toss about the band . |
| 21 | Surely , Masha and I had said , there were safeguards ; a madman on his own simply could n't unleash a nuclear warhead ? |
| 22 | Tonight 's programme suggests such parental back-up is n't always enough , but that police will continue to caution young offenders , because the criminal justice system simply ca n't handle a big increase in cases . |
| 23 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 24 | First and then could n't take a return one then . |
| 25 | While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career . |
| 26 | ‘ And you certainly ca n't travel a hundred miles alone ! ’ |
| 27 | There are a number of options , but I most certainly would not lead a breakaway church . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But he is in good form and I certainly would n't receive a severe shock if he were to win even though he is a long way out of the handicap . |
| 29 | He wo n't induct them to a living if he can help it and he certainly would n't put a divorced priest into a canonry . ’ |