Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist . |
| 2 | If the piranha fish did not brush its fins gently against a member of the opposite sex each month it would not exist as a species . |
| 3 | But it would not count as a non-branching hierarchy ; branching can be regarded as a canonical feature of a taxonomic hierarchy . |
| 4 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 5 | It can not serve as a term that describes objectively a specific set of conditions . |
| 6 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 7 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |