Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] or [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In promoting our credit facilities we shall not put pressure on you to borrow money which you do not need or can not afford . |
| 2 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 3 | It is the experience of other sociologists on similar missions that their findings are frequently cast in a negative role — that certain conservation measures will not succeed or will actually do harm — and also that they are frequently overridden or relegated to writing a disparate chapter in a project document or report entitled ‘ Social constraints to soil and water conservation ’ . |
| 4 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 5 | I think there is a general acceptance even amongst those who are not helpful that there is a major problem here that they can not ignore or can not deny and they have even got beyond the stage of trying to blame the victims . |
| 6 | Even the Pentagon do n't know or wo n't divulge what type of plane it was . |
| 7 | If they do n't know or wo n't say do n't buy it . |
| 8 | We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them . |
| 9 | " That he did n't know or could n't remember . |
| 10 | You ca n't do your best when you ca n't move or ca n't breathe . |