Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should not just act as a check-list but should relate facts about a country to the expatriate 's new life style . |
| 2 | The idea for the tongs may not even exist as a sketch ; simply as a concept in the smith 's mind . |
| 3 | In May 1982 Britain tried to force concessions by delaying a review of CAP prices , but was defeated by a majority vote of the other members , an event which called into question the Luxembourg Compromise and showed that Thatcher could not simply act as a new de Gaulle . |
| 4 | He is said to have derogated the picture as ‘ just juggling about ’ and ‘ copying others ’ , and that the picture would not even serve as a good poster . |
| 5 | Incentives are considered artificial if the rewarding events would not normally occur as a consequence of the behaviour outside the training situation ( e.g. being given stars or happy faces for getting dressed ) . |
| 6 | The latter phenomenon would not actually come as a surprise to regional economists . |
| 7 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 8 | Thus ‘ held with the intention ’ came to be construed in a sense which the language of Parliament can not possibly bear as a matter of ordinary sense and grammar , as embracing not only material held by the crooked solicitor but material held without any intention on the part of the holder but infected , either at the time of its creation or , seemingly , at any subsequent time , by an intention on the part of any person , whether the client entitled to it or anyone else , to use it for furthering some criminal purpose . |