Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness . |
| 2 | Physical miracles may not happen for each person but I felt miracles can happen within everyone . |
| 3 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 4 | It was held that the tailor could not sue for any money because the goods were not necessaries ; the minor was already well supplied with waistcoats . |
| 5 | They argued that an interpretation in terms of the relative potency of crossed and uncrossed pathways could not account for this result . |
| 6 | Spencer has his characters busy washing sheets , making beds , tidying cupboards , and Christ and his apostles appear in Cookham as though attending a summer regatta- ’ ‘ Fine , ’ he says , rising from his chair , ‘ I could n't ask for more proof of realism , of everyday life … |
| 7 | She turned to the bookcase : ‘ Those were his books , but after he had his stroke he could n't read for any length of time without tiring his eyes and I used to read to him . |
| 8 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 9 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 10 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 11 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 12 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 13 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 14 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 15 | And if we were able to make a budget erm , without the constraints of the S S A and so on , we would not , erm you know , and without the cuts of business rates as Mr said , there would n't need for any pain anyway . |
| 16 | Sometimes I feel I 'd like to pack a bag and just go … sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Poor Dora , she ca n't wait for this week to be over , ’ Melissa remarked . |
| 19 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 20 | said , if I ca n't come for that typewriter then I 've sold it , he said I , I told her if she wanted it she 'd got to come and collect it and he said and nobody asked for it , I said well I know |
| 21 | Unfortunately , household expenses do n't go away just because you 're in hospital or ca n't work for any length of time . |
| 22 | Shares allotted following the exercise of an option will rank pari passu with the then issued shares of the same class of the Company ( except that they will not rank for any dividend or other right having a record date prior to the allottee 's entry on the Company 's register of members ) . |
| 23 | No I will not want for this company again . |
| 24 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman , the Leader of the House and all those on the Treasury Bench know that the people outside will not stand for this kind of activity — The Secretary of State is supposed to be listening . |
| 25 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's a hard man to deal with and Fergie wo n't stand for any nonsense . |
| 27 | ‘ If you win , ’ Biddy said , ‘ I wo n't ask for any payment . ’ |
| 28 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 29 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |