Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly if you have to create anything other than mild pain in order to stop your thoughts you must not continue but rather find an alternative technique of distraction . |
| 2 | However , we must not forget that even in a welfare totalitarianism like Inca Peru the individual still has some sort of rudimentary superego , albeit perhaps only the primitive one of early childhood ; and , furthermore , we must not overlook his explanation of the feeling of triumph present in mania . |
| 3 | In addressing the inner culture of higher education , we must not forget that inescapably it will and should have some relationship with the culture of its host society . |
| 4 | — Governments should not think that even this round of new demands from the Community will be the last , nor that the Eurocrats ' appetite can be stilled with concessions here and there : on the contrary , the appetite for power grows with the feeding . |
| 5 | Aluminium provides a very strong structure but may not perform as well thermally as PVCU while wood requires more maintenance than either . |
| 6 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 7 | Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age . |
| 8 | And I thought like his mum might not find that really amusing or anything |
| 9 | But Willie could not answer and only gasped incoherently . |
| 10 | So , in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet , it seemed , could not end , the days went by . |
| 11 | She could not refuse and indeed found it quite easy to accept . |
| 12 | But Fiver could not explain and only grew more and more distressed . |
| 13 | They claimed that she was not yet sixteen and so could not marry and hence had no right to be here . |
| 14 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 15 | If we examine the parish registers from 1763 onwards ( from which date the principals and witnesses were required to ‘ sign ‘ their names ) it will be apparent that up to 1830 more than half the bridegrooms could not write and nearly three-quarters of the brides were devoid of the skill . |
| 16 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 17 | Our drift out of nationhood — a collective , willed political identity — into a reality we could not shape nor even talk about began a long time ago . |
| 18 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 19 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 20 | Evalina was financially desperate , could not work and also tend the child . |
| 21 | The stone face , lively and young as it was , had a certainty about it the boy could not claim as yet . |
| 22 | His face had become cold and hard , like a face that could not smile and never had . |
| 23 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 24 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |
| 25 | In January 1326 Isabella wrote to Bishop Stratford , now back in England , indicating that she would not return until both Despensers had been banished from court . |
| 26 | She said that she would not appear before specially constituted courts , but was nevertheless present for a hearing before a tribunal in Karachi on Sept. 31 , which granted her exemption from future court appearances until after the elections . |
| 27 | Stories abounded that he would not live , then that he would not walk and finally that he would never play golf again . |
| 28 | One can similarly predict that there are some laws which , if passed , the citizenry would not observe or even the police enforce . |
| 29 | He would not say that now , he would be embarrassed . |
| 30 | The engine would not run as well as the distributor advance curve is wrong for this RR camshaft and heavy flywheel combination . |