Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walkers who would not dare stroll half a mile in inner cities thought nothing of walking 190 miles across the fells , dales and moors from St Bee 's in Cumbria to Robin Hood 's Bay in North Yorkshire . |
| 2 | Even England would not dare claim that . |
| 3 | We would n't dare do that , we would n't think of doing that . |
| 4 | If I were a man you would n't dare do this ! ’ |
| 5 | Never mind what Chrissy or Martina have done , I would n't dare take that away from them . |
| 6 | Well in the evening they ca n't do do that now . |
| 7 | And he ca n't , you ca n't do twist any more . |
| 8 | other remark , which I ca n't let go unchallenged , that ninety percent of mental health work in the m community is looking after the worried well . |
| 9 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 10 | It is not only that quantification can not help eliminate such predicates , but often we have to make use of such predicates in order to make clear that the given quantified sentence does indeed convey an ontological claim . |