Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [not/n't] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the musician works with notes , why should we not accept that colour by its intrinsic force is capable of expressing a painter 's thought ? ’ |
| 2 | Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice ? |
| 3 | How could you not know that about your child ? |
| 4 | How could she not want that ? |
| 5 | How could she not get that . |
| 6 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 7 | How dare he not know that ? |
| 8 | Well that well tha wo would tha would you not think that 's a good thing ? |
| 9 | Well please tell him that your mummy says please would you not do that again . |
| 10 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 11 | How can you not feel that ? ’ |
| 12 | Look on you know what I mean , how can you not do that for your favourite friend . |
| 13 | Can you not get that nice edging that 's got a bit of a pattern on it ? |
| 14 | ‘ How can they not understand that to do a real Kitezh or a real Ruslan — as we will do in the next year or so , it 's planned — is much more honourable , much more pleasurable artistically and much more important to the artistic world that a middleclass performance of , let's say , Rigoletto , in a small opera-house in Germany or Italy ? |
| 15 | He realises too late that not only can he not meet that deadline but he will not be able to finish those accounts before 31 December 1994 . |