Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power to grant injunctions , which now arises under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , is a discretionary power , which should not as a matter of principle be fettered by rules . |
| 2 | It is a commitment to a set of practical arrangements that should not for a minute outlive its usefulness . |
| 3 | you 'll not in a place |
| 4 | On occasion he tried to recruit the Pope into his efforts , and the Americans in general could never understand why the Pope-like Ayatollah ( ’ His Holiness the Imam ’ ) could not with a snap of his fingers , get the hostages released . |
| 5 | Disoriented , she could not for an instant even locate her daughter . |
| 6 | there was something going on , whether or not there was , I do n't know I said she could n't in a couple of years time , she said I du n no , she says she 's only twenty six |
| 7 | ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible . |
| 8 | I would not for a moment be without these sterling qualities but the imagery of this great movement is vivid and declamatory and Bach 's intention was surely to arouse the passions of his audience . |
| 9 | It is wholly unnecessary to go that far in the present case and I would not for a moment suggest that the common law of England is bound or even likely to follow every twist of the development of the common law in the United States . |
| 10 | I would not for a moment propose we face the same immediate peril confronting the world in the early 1940s . |
| 11 | Sir er sir the I think I would not for a moment argue that minerals considerations can be ove overriding in this matter . |
| 12 | Having said that , I would not as a film producer be here today without sums of money like the Eady levy [ a tax on cinema seats ] . |
| 13 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 14 | By the side you ca n't with a terrace , can you really , yeah , I think any terrace , surely would have two doors on the front , would n't it ? |
| 15 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 16 | He will not for a moment allow that the doctrine of justification through free grace , received by faith , can lead to antinomianism ( Rom. 6:1ff ) . |
| 17 | Now that 's something I wo n't with a bit sloping down . |
| 18 | ‘ But you wo n't with an arrow sticking out of you all the way . ’ |
| 19 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 20 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , ’ Theda said firmly , ‘ even were I to give you my advice , which must necessarily be based on very little knowledge , I can not for a moment imagine that you would take it . ’ |
| 21 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent . |
| 22 | I like it when you come and we sort of can not in a rush . |