Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But can you say , sir , that there is nothing between you that should not be ? [ pause ] You answer me not and may I not fairly presume you can not ? |
| 2 | Should we not therefore expect God 's gifts to have their satanic counterpart ? |
| 3 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 4 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 5 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 6 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 7 | Could you not equally have said : ‘ Ha ! |
| 8 | Could you not just have asked me ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Could you not perhaps raise a mortgage on your house ? |
| 10 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 11 | Could we not just put |
| 12 | could we not just circulate them ? |
| 13 | Why could they not always live together like this ? |
| 14 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 15 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 16 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 17 | I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he |
| 18 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 19 | Rutherford said , ‘ Would you not rather read the file first ? ’ |
| 20 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 21 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 22 | ‘ However the fortunes of war shall go … ’ , asks Théoden , ‘ may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth ? ’ |
| 23 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 24 | Well , well that 's what I said , but she says can I not just alter it and leave it at that ? |
| 25 | Can you not just take John 's now ? |
| 26 | Can you not just read the dictionary ? |
| 27 | So I can you not just stick it out till I ring Brian ? |
| 28 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 29 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 30 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |