Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] n't [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many schools ca n't afford a music teacher and private lessons are expensive . |
| 2 | [ Most shops wo n't accept a cheque for goods costing more than £50 . |
| 3 | Our parents would n't believe a word we said , so we took them to see Flupper . |
| 4 | The transport provided by Disney is excellent and most visitors would n't need a car . |
| 5 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 6 | WHO says little countries ca n't have a shipbuilding industry ? |
| 7 | " I would n't mind a beer , " Timothy said , adding that the only trouble was that the Badstoneleigh supermarkets would n't serve a person who was under age . |
| 8 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 9 | Agree flexible arrangements for your son to visit ( I say flexible because he wo n't want to feel obliged to turn up every weekend ; that way , the visits wo n't become a chore for you or for him ) . |
| 10 | My dogs would n't hurt a fly . |
| 11 | MONAGHAN farmers are angry with the county council because officials wo n't approve a scheme which supplies 650 dwellings for a grant of £250,000 . |
| 12 | Even manager Lawrie McMenemy admitted : ‘ There were times when teams could n't hold a candle to England but that 's all changed now . |
| 13 | He did n't belong to any of them , but he knew the doormen would n't challenge a man with his distinguished appearance and well-tailored clothes . |
| 14 | " Things wo n't have a chance to get worse and do n't worry . |
| 15 | For , in the words of national sales manager Owain Pugh , ‘ without profitable customers we wo n't have a business , and without competitively-priced raw materials our customers wo n't have a business . |
| 16 | I agree with you that it 's not feasible that Harley is on some kind of drug — even beta-blockers would n't help a golfer that much . |
| 17 | Seems the purestrains ca n't pilot a ship , ca n't fire a gun , ca n't fix a fuse . |
| 18 | The platitudes of rich pop stars wo n't change a thing — direct action just might . |
| 19 | Our minds ca n't imagine a timespan as long as a million years , let alone the thousands of millions of years that geologists routinely compute . |
| 20 | Our minds ca n't imagine a time span as short as a picosecond , but we can do calculations about picoseconds , and we can build computers that can complete calculations within picoseconds . |
| 21 | ( b ) Trainees ca n't make a connection between what they see and their own teaching environment . |
| 22 | Men would n't have a clue ! |
| 23 | So keep the the plaster-spotted faces of the fanatics in your mind as you exercise , and you 'll laugh so much the wrinkles wo n't have a chance . |
| 24 | " But men wo n't shoot a homba . " |
| 25 | Even architects wo n't get a hole in one |
| 26 | But the police wo n't find a thing unless we call them . ’ |
| 27 | The Government ought to take care of them , it 's the least they could do … but as long as there 's eejits like me to fork out a bob or two , the authorities wo n't do a thing . ’ |
| 28 | Look , the point is , if that 's how it 's being taught , it 's not surprising that most of our alumni ca n't buy a bus-ticket to Bayswater . |
| 29 | Women ca n't do a man 's job ? ’ |
| 30 | However , the same little collection of components would n't allow a robot arm to interpret the signals from a CCD sensor in a manner which allows the arm to be placed reliably alongside an item on a conveyor belt . |