Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 2 | This should not however blind us to its reappearance . |
| 3 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 4 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 5 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 6 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 7 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 8 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 9 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 10 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 11 | As for that girl , if it was my father , he would n't just take you to the CRE , he would also give you a good thump . |
| 12 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 13 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 14 | ‘ I can understand your reluctance to talk about what 's happened but you ca n't just push it to one side . |
| 15 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't possibly allow myself to be happy now , because I had an affair/caused a car crash/stole some money/had sex with my brother or sister/ was cruel to my dog/betrayed my best friend — five , ten or twenty years ago . |
| 17 | you ca n't safely send them to the toilet alone . |
| 18 | I ca n't actually give it to you because it will amuse suspicion from the guard . |
| 19 | Er well I ca n't really sing it to you , cos it 's on tape at the moment . |
| 20 | These examples will not immediately take you to being chairperson of ICI but they will give you personally , as well as potential employers , a more positive image of you as a candidate in an interview . |
| 21 | These influences will not always incline him to the view that revelation of particular legal or political material is necessarily in the public interest . |
| 22 | Do n't worry , I wo n't really throw you to the wolves . |
| 23 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 24 | At least certain of the theories of probability , notably the frequency theory , can not possibly allow it to be meaningful to speak of the probability of single events , and hence can not be used in analysis of particular causal beliefs , those which are most common . |