Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 2 | Even if , in general terms , the curriculum model is adequate , and the test items valid , it may not match the particular curriculum experienced by the student who is being tested . |
| 3 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 4 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 5 | Although the latter may be slightly cheaper than sateen , it may not have the same draping quality . |
| 6 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 7 | It might not boast the Dreaming Spires of its illustrious near neighbour , but now Swindon hopes it too can become a distinguished seat of learning . |
| 8 | The hard-nosed bullet struck home into the bull 's chest , wounding it fatally , but it could not stop the lunging charge nor ward off the twin crescents of bone thrust upwards into his body with all the force of the seladang 's powerful neck . |
| 9 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 10 | The Government could have ignored the outcry from the unions and Labour but it could not ignore the unexpected media attack . |
| 11 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 12 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |
| 13 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 14 | It could not afford the political cost of conceding yet more Arab territory to the new Jewish state . |
| 15 | It could n't land the one guy it really wanted . |
| 16 | The breeze flowing off the river was cool , but it could n't cool the hot flames of desire she could feel curling inside her . |
| 17 | It need not have the medical checks or the rules on weight difference or the timed rounds of official boxing . |
| 18 | ‘ Sort of , but it would n't create the right impression . ’ |
| 19 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 20 | Though it would n't make the least bit of difference to her what way he looked , she would not let the occasion pass without punishing him sharply for still being alive . |
| 21 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 22 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 23 | Although the party failed to gain a seat , Mr Green said it would not deter the Labour group from running again in local polls . |
| 24 | I have meandered round all sorts of fairly obscure topics , just about pleasing the Chair by remaining in order , knowing that whatever I said it would not make the slightest difference to the outcome of the private Bill . |
| 25 | Even if that caricature were true , which in almost every respect it is not , it would not alter the fundamental issues at the core of the Rushdie affair . |
| 26 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 27 | Moreover , it would not require the high administrative and technical costs of road pricing . |
| 28 | And it 's not going to , I mean John is right , it , the T G I one that Jenny writes , what is , it will not cover the other continuous jobs . |
| 29 | It is of course true that in many cases it will be stated that the nave is , for example , twelfth-century , the chancel fifteenth ( with nineteenth-century restorations ) , the north chapel twentieth , and so on , but it will not record the stained glass now gone or the wall monuments which have decayed ( or , obviously , the changes wrought since the booklet was written ) . |
| 30 | Japan 's new coalition government has indicated it will not abandon the previous government 's commitment to nuclear power . |