Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 2 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 3 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 4 | Mr Menem 's show of leniency towards a few elderly officers may not keep them quiet for long . |
| 5 | Strengthening your muscles need not make them bigger , but firm and taut . |
| 6 | You may have good grounds for your negative feelings , but those feelings will not do you any good . |
| 7 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 8 | If he were to discontinue treatment and merely make the child comfortable , the courts would not find him guilty of manslaughter . |
| 9 | It was stated that solicitors would not find it possible to prepare the written briefs , and that it would be unfair to expect them to do so . |
| 10 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 11 | The Council of Ministers will not find it easy to repeal the ep amendments to the directive if the Commission accepts them ( the Commission has already indicated its agreement to the scope of the categories and the time limits ) . |
| 12 | It 's very much you , because for various reasons , external factors will not make it easy for you . |