Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 2 | As a staunch supporter of the traditional FX4S design in any colour you like as long as it 's black , I suppose I should n't have even talked to him , let alone been friendly . |
| 3 | It is accepted that upon gaining independence a new State is bound by the customary international law then in existence , and that a State is bound by customary international law even though it may not have directly consented to it . |
| 4 | The serious economic problems facing Britain following the slump of 1929 , and the seeming inability of any one party to offer a way out , together with the parliamentary deadlock , led many to ask whether a combination of like-minded politicians from different parties might not prove better suited to resolving Britain 's problems than any single-party government . |
| 5 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps what he really meant was that they could n't afford not to go to Nunes . |
| 7 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 8 | Do you think he would not see right done to you ? ’ |
| 9 | He asks something which , you know , I mean the way they do , what is life , and you would n't know — unless you 're perhaps trained or awake to the significance of what the child is actually asking — you would n't know how to respond to that , so you tend to put it off . |
| 10 | He asks something which , you know , I mean the way they do , what is life , and you would n't know — unless you 're perhaps trained or awake to the significance of what the child is actually asking — you would n't know how to respond to that , so you tend to put it off . |
| 11 | And , ah , oh aye , and she says they 're out playing and the s and she says you know what kids are like Jean , and she says like I would n't try even to say to my kids not to go near them because you would n't tell them because they 're only kids and she says they 're like playing in the square and she says like I would David and down here you know when I was coming down |
| 12 | But then they 'd say , ‘ I ca n't stand here listening to you all day ’ , and go off and do something else . |
| 13 | ‘ I know I ca n't go on listening to it all day , but find it one more time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't go on lying to yourself , ’ said Robert . |
| 15 | ‘ You may think you can lie to me , but you ca n't go on lying to yourself , ’ he said with calm assurance . |
| 16 | But if he has n't seen that he ca n't go round preaching to other people about their morals . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't imagine ever wanting to be white ’ |
| 18 | Museum of American Art ( until 13 June ) , visitors are issued an admission button which bears all or part of the following sentence : ‘ I ca n't imagine ever wanting to be white ’ . |
| 19 | Exposing the board for too long a period will rarely cause any damage , but troublesome problems can be caused by underexposure , when the UV sensitive coating will not have thoroughly reacted to the UV light . |
| 20 | use of the lower body is also restricted , principally because the weight will not have fully shifted to the right side in a shortened backswing . |
| 21 | Now Bright wo n't go there according to Radio 5 . |
| 22 | She says … he 'll get good milk and be taught discipline by his mum and wo n't get too attached to humans . |
| 23 | I can not recall actually thinking to myself ‘ I am enjoying this . ’ |
| 24 | Media enterprises — newspapers , radio or television services — now need such large sums of capital that they can not afford not to turn to outside ( sometimes foreign ) interests . |