Example sentences of "[modal v] not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 2 | But we do need to remember the great cost of exercising our right to have double standards and also to ask ourselves whether expenditure to make us extremely safe from one form of risk may not sometimes make us more vulnerable to others . |
| 3 | Thus a private company may not always consider it advantageous to ‘ go public ’ . |
| 4 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 5 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 6 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 7 | The jungle in which they are isolated provides them with shelter but can not possibly offer them enough food . |