Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] and [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions he could not answer and could not ignore . |
| 2 | I think our view of the effects of numbers significantly lower than the ones that we 've put to you , is first of all that there are a number of factors which planning can not influence and will not influence . |
| 3 | And he warned : ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 5 | And he warned : ‘ Unless this approach is changed , the Government will not survive and will not deserve to . ’ |
| 6 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 7 | It is to enable those who do not know and can not know enough for policy-making to make policy , yet it is to have no policies of its own . ’ |
| 8 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |
| 9 | He did not know and could not say : he tore off the silly beard and began a sentence about resignation , which he could not finish . |
| 10 | These are part of the construct of contemporary childhood which we can not exclude and must not ignore . |
| 11 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 12 | If she ate enough she would not speak and could not cry out . |
| 13 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 14 | It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent . |
| 15 | Terence Place , although highly favoured for the job , had not confessed and might never do so . |
| 16 | The Triplane shuddered but would not break and would not burn . |
| 17 | Miss Linnet Gage , therefore , would not believe and would not wish to believe Cara 's story . |
| 18 | Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time . |
| 19 | Seventy percent of the expenditure is on staff who you do not employ and can not dismiss , a large part of the income , or all the income is through the fees that are set na nationally by the government . |
| 20 | ‘ We have no idea what wonder drug Boots or Wellcome might suddenly produce during the year , and we can not stop and should not stop doctors prescribing all the drugs that their particular patients ’ need . ’ |
| 21 | Is not it madness to be spending billions of pounds on a missile system which does not deter and may not work — and when we have no one at whom to point it ? |
| 22 | In many ways they have been forced to bend the rules to tackle a problem that the planning system did not create and can not solve without perverting legitimate public interests . |
| 23 | Only the best were good enough to grace the amphitheatres ; a second class performance by man or beast was not tolerated and would probably lead to the inevitable ‘ thumbs down ’ . |
| 24 | An automatic ignition and re-ignition system to all burners that ‘ senses ’ when gas is not lit and wo n't stop sparking until it 's certain it has been lit . |
| 25 | They do not have and can not have all the possibly relevant materials and evidence before them . |
| 26 | It is the usual example of the Labour party spending money that it does not have and will not get . |
| 27 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 28 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 29 | Second , capitalism may be sustained by popular voting chiefly because workers themselves have not constituted and could not constitute an electoral majority ( przeworski , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | The shop was dimly lit and cluttered but he found his way to the front door which was bolted ; Alfred had not left and could not return that way . |