Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasonable foreseeability test should not apply in strict liability torts as foresight of damage is not generally required to establish liability . |
| 2 | To tell people you are ‘ deaf ’ may not result in immediate co-operation . |
| 3 | A circulation in excess of 10 will probably lead to a leak within the entity 's trade sector ; a circulation of less than 5 may not result in competitive bidding . |
| 4 | As implied earlier , there are some other groups of adjectives which also may not appear in predicative position because of the meaning of this construction , but their introduction must await further discussion , in particular of the notions of sense-modification and separative qualification ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 6 | Grunwald argued that since the foundation of the sociology of knowledge was ‘ axiological ’ rather than a science with an epistemology , it could not engage in empirical research . |
| 7 | This could not happen in spoken language interpreting since the buffer would have two spoken codes vying for one output . |
| 8 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 9 | The government would not intervene in private sector wage bargaining but intended that its own example in the public sector plus strict control of the money supply would encourage responsible wage bargaining . |
| 10 | This would not result in extensive melting of the outer 100 km or so . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 12 | Erm greeting and appropriate sociability fine , you were a little bit nervous so you tended to sort of talk over me a little bit but that 's not a problem , it probably would n't happen in real life . |
| 13 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 14 | While ideal for touring , when flying in close formation you ca n't put in rapid throttle adjustments without first pushing in the centre button . |
| 15 | Plants that ca n't survive in bright light die . |
| 16 | They like things to be loud and dramatic , and if there 's one thing you ca n't have in good sorcery , it 's loud noises and drama . |
| 17 | It is normally assumed that this reconstruction will not result in long-term unemployment of resources , or worse , permanent under-utilisation of resources in some sectors . |
| 18 | Although the acquisition and preservation of data are laudable activities they will not result in widespread use of the data unless the archives take an active role in promoting use . |
| 19 | Anticipation of Cabinet resistance does prevent Mrs Thatcher from establishing ministerial groups skewed in favour of policies she might favour but which will not run in full Cabinet . |
| 20 | He holds the view that an ill fish wo n't sit in full sun in the middle of the water , where it runs the risk of predation , but will hide , usually in the shade at the edge of the water , where the temperature will be much lower . |
| 21 | it 's why we 've lost most of our industry because they wo n't , they wo n't invest in new machinery or mo , new methods ! |
| 22 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 23 | Failure of radio aids — Tell ATC Without a certain level of equipment you can not fly in controlled airspace . |
| 24 | The most familiar case is the use of linking ; the phoneme can not occur in syllable-final position in RP , but when a word 's spelling suggests a final , and a word beginning with a vowel follows , the usual pronunciation for RP speakers is to pronounce with . |
| 25 | Just as we can make assumptions about a letter we can not read in handwritten script by its position within a word that looks familiar , so WordScan Plus uses a dictionary to enhance its suggestions as to what a given shape might be . |
| 26 | If the receiver of the gift can not respond in due time with a ‘ counter-gift ’ ( counter gifts can not be given too soon after gifts , because this would imply a logic of calculation which would deplete the symbolic force of the exchange ) then the giver is in a position of creditor and the receiver in one of debtor . |
| 27 | They can not live in permanent assembly , to provide the drive for history , but must delegate to specialist office-holders . |