Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
2 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
3 | Each test sentence used is therefore a valid member of the English language ( although it may not necessarily conform to prescriptive syntactic rules ) . |
4 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
5 | It would n't even get to prosecution . |
6 | But Dot had thought it would n't ever happen to their baby . |
7 | It would not even occur to most businessmen that the criteria the Revenue employs can be more favourable than those the DSS uses . |
8 | The individual who becomes a tax exile and wishes to make a thorough job of it will not only cease to be UK resident ; he or she will wish to lose a UK domicile of origin . |
9 | It can not then go to the carer no matter how long the care has lasted . |