Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If a project is a genuine community-based initiative creating jobs and providing a service for the community , and if its management and accounts are in order , it is utterly unacceptable that it should not receive funding on the basis of its alleged political associations . |
2 | self-contained — it must not need information from another part of the problem . |
3 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
4 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
5 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
6 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
7 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
8 | In addition , from a purely practical point of view it would not make sense for judgment creditors to be afforded preferential treatment in insolvencies . |
9 | Neither effect is large , but the result is sufficiently different for us to feel uncomfortable about averaging the two effects ; it would not do justice to the situation to say that on average there was no effect of education once age was controlled . |
10 | First of all , I do not need to publicise a successful venture in order to attract more applicants , and secondly , it would not do justice to the conference theme which aims to discuss aspects of untapped linguistic resources and teacher training . |
11 | It is because such a historical social psychology would cut through the conventional distinction between pure and applied social psychology , and because it would not lay claim to universal psychological principles , that it would involve a more radical change in orientation that a universal anthropological social psychology . |
12 | On 30th March , the Crown admitted that it would not offer evidence on the charges for two of the murders and they were quietly abandoned . |
13 | This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence . |
14 | It would not understand delay until the autumn . |
15 | Original signatories : Albania ( withdrew 1968 ) ; Bulgaria ; Czechoslovakia [ see below ] ; East Germany ( withdrew in September 1990 prior to unification with West Germany ) ; Hungary ( declared in June 1990 that it would not take part in military exercises in 1990 and that it intended to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 ) ; Poland [ see below ] ; Romania ; Soviet Union . |
16 | This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
17 | In a letter to the PA sent during the run-up to the General Election last April , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
18 | Unlike its plainer cousin , it will not bring shame to the wearer by wilting or drooping on the crucial day . |
19 | The mask will then arrive and terminate activity in the letter-detector level — but it will not affect activity in the word-detector level . |
20 | Without going into whether the information would come from his audit file or the client 's file , the Institute has a stated policy that it will not put pressure on the incumbent auditor/adviser to supply information to a successor while fees remain outstanding — though the incumbent should be prepared to demonstrate that he is taking active steps to collect the outstanding fee including , if necessary , a writ or summons . |
21 | But it can not treat gender as a theoretical or methodological category , that might structure its own tools and methods of inquiry , and so it can not examine its own discourse for masculine bias . |
22 | For example , considering ( 3 ) , there is no fixed number of participants at which conversation becomes impossible , but although a conversation can take place between five people , it can not take place between a hundred . |
23 | As this temperature rise occurs after ovulation has already taken place , it can not predict ovulation in advance . |
24 | The wind is clearly very tenuous , but though it can not sweep dust before it , it can sweep outwards some of any gas in its path . |
25 | Although these data are extremely useful , it can not assess reflux of potentially harmful materials such as bile , which has a near neutral pH , or even food with a near neutral pH that may contain other damaging agents such as pepsin . |
26 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
27 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
28 | In common with many small and medium-sized mutual life assurers investing in growing their business , because it can not raise money from outside as a proprietary company can , it is forced to make a choice . |