Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any change must not make it easier for a defendant to escape conviction for murder in cases where there is a planned or revenge killing . |
| 2 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 3 | Conversely , the firm may use a non-conventional channel like mail order which requires minimal investment in salespeople , although the physical characteristics of the product may not make it suitable for mail order . |
| 4 | ‘ But he may not think it grand enough . ’ |
| 5 | Those who pin their hopes on highly specified , short range solutions may or may not get it right . |
| 6 | New Zealand , silver medal-winners last time , may not find it easy against the improving Finland . |
| 7 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 8 | For example , the general notion of a ‘ building ’ is clear , but a judge may not find it easy to decide whether a temporary wooden hut , or a telephone kiosk , or a wall , or a tent , is a ‘ building . ’ |
| 9 | For example , if you choose to write an essay on the novel A Very Quiet Street by the contemporary Glasgow author Frank Kuppner , you may not find it easy to get any critical work either on the book itself or on this writer ( since no books may have been written about him ) . |
| 10 | They may not find it , they may not find it impossible to change contracts but it will become increasingly harder for them to do so . |
| 11 | I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny . |
| 12 | Wait a minute cos I might not get it right , tell me a big number |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll not build it all at once , but we 'll allow space for it . |
| 14 | The reeve , attendant at Hugh 's elbow , eyed him sidelong , and said insinuatingly : ‘ You 'll not think it ill of good husbandmen to take what God sends and be grateful for it ? ’ |
| 15 | And you 'll not see it next |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll not find it easy to get the keys from old Joanna , ’ Rhodri remarked with malice , as they passed in through the archway and continued along the town walls . |
| 17 | I think if labour gets in , you 'll not get it tough at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 19 | She could not stand it another minute . |
| 20 | While the anti-modernist purge put this process back a generation , it could not stop it re-emerging , especially in the most advanced areas of Catholic culture in northern Europe . |
| 21 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 22 | But you could not blame it all on the place or on the drugs scene . |
| 23 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 24 | It was an order — a rare thing from Therese — and Flavia could not refuse it short of gross discourtesy in public to an older woman and a friend . |
| 25 | I could sense the steep drop to my left , though I could not see it due to the trees and thick foliage that lined the roadside . |
| 26 | ‘ These bones show that he hid the hound here , but he could not keep it quiet , so people heard its cries . |
| 27 | With Alice , she could not get it right . |
| 28 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 29 | I was really afraid I 'd not get it all down , and all the time he was listening out for me . |
| 30 | Of course , they would not make it simple . |