Example sentences of "[prep] it [modal v] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 2 | If some biological constraint can rule out , or make unrealistic , some normative practice or institution , then knowledge of it may not only encourage us to decline that practice if it is suggested , but may also contribute an explanation of why human communities do not in general display that practice or institution . |
| 3 | It is probable that the species commonly called summer or spring wheat will continue to be the favourite sort of this grain ; and although the cultivation of it may not perhaps be advisable in general over the Hebrides , yet , in consequence of various circumstances favourable to it in Islay , and especially the building of a flour mill by the enlightened and patriotic proprietor , ( which cost him £1200 ) , this valuable crop may be extended over a large portion of the best farms in the island . |
| 4 | But as I say some of it may not er no , be relevant to yourself . |
| 5 | Well I mean a lot of it ca n't be measured you know ? |
| 6 | Do a pennorth do a pennorth of it ca n't you ? |
| 7 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 8 | So that 's a double positive a double negative that 's a positive double negative so H two and the O so that 's gon na be that 'll be a double positive because there 's two of it would n't it ? |
| 9 | Yes — in fact , she remembered thinking that a touch of it would n't do her assistant any harm … |
| 10 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 11 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 12 | hurls it out of it would n't it ? |
| 13 | All the time he had this great bursting feeling of utter incredulity inside him ; it kept exploding , he kept laughing out loud at the memory of the amazing appearance before his very eyes of this whole new life ; the shock of it would not fade . |
| 14 | An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) . |
| 15 | I hoped , as we said goodbye , that he would suffer no psychological ill-effects from the deception , and that my exposure of it would not impair his relationship with his mother . |
| 16 | He had got a prize for the design , although the users of it would not now have endorsed this since it was both hot and noisy . |
| 17 | Neville Whittaker , the ebullient chief executive of the North East Civic Trust , says the region has so many bad buildings a great deal of it would not be left standing if he could invoke the Heseltine solution . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't believe that the proposal will affect the site of Dedham Vale ; most of it wo n't be visible from the roads , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 20 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 21 | Right , and I just said to her , we will know the outcome of it wo n't we ? |
| 22 | A firm from Oxfordshire has just launched the latest equipment to help doctors find out more about heart and brain illnesses , but much of it wo n't ever be used in Britain . |
| 23 | Some of it could n't wait . ’ |
| 24 | If we could get him to come in reasonably quickly you could get all that stuff down and bagged up and we could get rid of it could n't we ? |
| 25 | In many situations laws which violate human rights and oppress the population or sections of it can not be broken without endangering the stability or even the very survival of relatively just institutions . |
| 26 | Although there is enough food there to feed 800,000 starving people for one month , most of it can not get through because of looters and bandits . |
| 27 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As the passing of the Bill is being given such high priority , will the Leader of the House guarantee that all the evidence will be put before the Committee — that some of it will not be suppressed , as the Secretary of State suppressed evidence put forward by colleges of further education ? |
| 30 | This can be done simply by defining the term imposing the duty as a " condition " ( giving a right to terminate the contract in the event of breach ) or " warranty " ( so that breach gives no right to terminate ) ; however , care must be taken because a court may not necessarily be bound by the label attached to a clause by the parties : for example , a term described as a " condition " will not necessarily be interpreted as a " condition " in law , so that breach of it will not necessarily allow the innocent party to terminate the contract ( L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |