Example sentences of "it [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 2 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 3 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 4 | Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos . |
| 5 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 6 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 7 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |
| 8 | Because of this fluidity in royal land-holding a list of all the known royal estates from the whole Merovingian period would be misleading ; it would not allow for the pattern of acquisition and alienation . |
| 9 | But the main effect of the Candida toxins is to depress the immune system — while this may well be important in perpetuating the Candida infection , it would not account for the symptoms described above . |
| 10 | The Body Shop had also said that it would not apply for an ecolabel for its hair spray , because the standards would allow virtually any manufacturer to claim environmental virtue [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 11 | The small Democratic Party , Solidarity 's coalition , has already said it will not vote for the indexation plan . |
| 12 | It says it will not apply for the label for its hairspray because the standards would allow virtually any manufacturer to claim environmental virtue . |
| 13 | It wo n't matter for a minute or two . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't mean to … er … a sick slave is nobody 's asset … er … it wo n't pay for an ounce of sugar … um … for the home trade … ’ |
| 16 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 17 | This , however , is not an adequate explanation because it can not account for the kind of statement made by the apprentice of his appreciation of the grandeur of work that was quoted by Willis ( 1976 ) and repeated earlier in this paper . |
| 18 | While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay . |
| 19 | Although there is evidence to support Kinsbourne 's hypothesis ( Kinsbourne , 1975a ; Cohen , 1975a ) it can not account for the results of those studies in which opposite field superiorities have been obtained for verbal and non-verbal stimuli presented randomly or simultaneously to each half field of vision ( Terrace , 1959 ; Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta , 1974 ; Hines , 1975 ; Klein , Moscovitch and Vigna , 1976 ; Pirozollo and Rayner , 1977 ) . |