Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members may not put a second account number on a card . |
| 2 | They could not exclude a fourth person nominated by the company . |
| 3 | ‘ Markham received help for two years , but with new applicants coming along it was felt he could not receive a third grant . ’ |
| 4 | Davenport asked for a move last month because he could n't get a first team chance . |
| 5 | Turkey was not in a state of war and would not open a second front against Iraq unless its own territory was attacked . |
| 6 | And Football League president Gordon McKeag said : ‘ When the Premier League was formed the FA said they would not sanction a second division . |
| 7 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 8 | ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie . |
| 9 | Highland Region 's track record over planning standards gives cause for concern that , despite objections , the council may end up passing a proposal or design that would n't get a second glance in a national park or a city . |
| 10 | But you , in modern standard English you would n't begin a second sentence with and . |
| 11 | I ca n't pay a third of the wage in lodgings . ’ |
| 12 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 13 | You ca n't have a thirtieth of a bicycle . |
| 14 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 15 | ‘ Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it and it means that the athletes from Durham and Cumbria will not get a second chance of achieving the English Schools qualifying standards . ’ |
| 16 | He wo n't get a second chance . |
| 17 | You wo n't get a second chance . |
| 18 | Waves can not exceed a seventh of their length in height without breaking ; but they can stretch to as much as a thousand feet . |
| 19 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 20 | The mountain before them was the birthplace of mankind ; and he referred the ladies , while excusing himself with an ingratiating laugh for mentioning an indelicate subject , to the authority of Our Saviour 's words to Nicodemus , where it is stated that a man can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born once more . |
| 21 | He can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born , can he ? |
| 22 | But the series of cardinals can not have a last member . |