Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 2 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 3 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 4 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 5 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 6 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 7 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , a pattern , of course we may not find it at once — ’ |
| 9 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
| 11 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 12 | If she could not consume them at least she could hold them . |
| 13 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 15 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 16 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 17 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 18 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 19 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 20 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 21 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 22 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 23 | Even though your school may not have the most modern and well equipped building set in extensive playing fields serving a prosperous suburb this need not put you at a great disadvantage in marketing the school . |
| 24 | As to whether four-dimensional events rather than perceptual objects should be regarded as ontologically basic particulars , this is a metaphysical decision which need not concern us at the moment . |
| 25 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 26 | She would not do it at all . |
| 27 | Woolridge swore that he would not visit her at Windsor again , unfortunately an oath that he failed to keep . |
| 28 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |
| 29 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 30 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |