Example sentences of "[modal v] not the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind the millions of pounds that the Government raised from privatisations — the selling of the family silver — and all the money that has been raked into the Treasury , should not the Economic Secretary stand at the Dispatch Box and apologise for the economic mess in which the Government have landed this country ? |
| 2 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 3 | At any rate , should not the New Testament material be studied critically and carefully with these questions in mind ? |
| 4 | Should not the Labour party occasionally pause and think before announcing ridiculous objectives which would cost so many British jobs ? |
| 5 | The question therefore arises that if the system or the people operating it are not effective , should not the whole organisation be scrapped ? |
| 6 | Why should n't the poor thing get angry , going deaf as he did ? ’ |
| 7 | Everybody else enjoys shopping why should n't the deaf community enjoy it as well ? ’ |
| 8 | Mr Enright asked : ‘ If a principal duty of government is the prevention of crime , has n't this government failed spectacularly and should n't the Prime Minister immediately announce he will set up a Royal Commission to make urgent proposals to prevent this ? |
| 9 | Should n't the over-riding aim of conservation be the saving of natural species and ecosystems , regardless of how much unnatural management this may entail ? |
| 10 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 11 | Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day . |
| 12 | Furthermore , could not the very reproduction of the species itself be regarded as depending on a form of memory — genetic memory , the apparent capacity of the DNA , transmitted between parent and offspring , to carry the rules for the future accurate development of the new organism ? |
| 13 | Could n't the new incentive of a £5,000 reward act as a trigger for the vital information detectives need to set justice on its way ? |
| 14 | Why could n't the other girl understand ? |
| 15 | He waited for him to answer and when it became obvious that he could n't the older man voiced what he hoped was true . |
| 16 | Air miles to Australia were suggested to the richer members of both clans : why could n't the happy couple honeymoon in Brighton ? |
| 17 | Would not the best way to advance transparency in world arms sales and achieve a United Nations register be for Britain now to declare that we shall have transparency and a register of Britain 's arms sales ? |
| 18 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 19 | Would not the best course of action be for employers to dismiss anyone who has addictive disease ? |
| 20 | In any case would not the right course require me to give his advice prima facie rather than pre-emptive force ? |
| 21 | If you do , would not the same argument be applied to a host of other examples of training expenditure ; for example , costs related to acquisition of BS 5750 ( a cost which is not directly a cost of trading but merely a requirement to put companies in a position to carry on their trade , ie where customers seek BS 5750 approval ) ? |
| 22 | Instead of using the word ‘ Edwardian ’ ’ , would not the proper description be ‘ young thugs ’ ’ leaving it at that ? ’ |
| 23 | Would not the simplest advice to the British public be that they should always buy British beef , pork and veal ? |
| 24 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 25 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 26 | Well , we ca n't the only way stop it all together and that ai n't gon na . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't the great Feargal McMahon do anything ? ’ |
| 28 | Ca n't the British people and their MPs grasp the simple fact that a European Bank and a single currency would complete Brussels ' control over the locality of industry ? |
| 29 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 30 | Why ca n't the same methods that were used by the Commonwealth yesterday vis a vis Rhodesia , vis a vis Namibia and vis a vis South Africa , not be applied in respect of the colonial and settlerist situation here . |