Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Since petrochemicals are , by definition , derived from crude oil or gas , must not the concept of a secure supply base also embrace these ?
2 Should not every household in the country know that the Labour party officially wants to deny the low paid the tax reductions given by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor yesterday ?
3 ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . )
4 Should n't the rest of the world now actively help these talks ?
5 Should n't the removal of Stamp Duty become a permanent feature ?
6 Should n't the reaction at this point be freezing anger ?
7 It was indeed Darwin 's wife , Emma , herself a scientist , who pointed out the real danger in the use of scientific method when she asked him : " May not the habit in scientific pursuits of believing nothing till it is proved , influence your mind too much in other things which can not be proved in the same way ? and which if true are likely to be above our comprehension ? "
8 Coming from a woman might not a case of wine be misconstrued ?
9 Might not the mastery of a skill quickly mean that an approach to learning through discovery could be more effectively undertaken ?
10 Might not the presence of that tournament in the country excite feelings on either side ?
11 Could not a promise in effect to forgo this liberty constitute consideration ?
12 Why , we asked innocently , could not the allocation from the two Departments be put together to match the £2 million original asking price for Mentmore ?
13 Why , oh why , could not the debate on the Bill be held after the general election ?
14 We need not a tinkering with security policy — a change here and a change there — but a root-and-branch change in security policy so that it changes from a reactive one to a proactive one and becomes a policy of going after the IRA , of taking the fight to the IRA .
15 On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ?
16 Would not a policy of clobbering savers with an investment surcharge reduce savings and so reduce the pool of available investment capital for manufacturing industry ?
17 Would not the appointment of a British Rail ombudsman restore confidence to this small part of the state sector ?
18 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
19 But would n't a man of any sensitivity have attempted to check with her , would n't he have assumed that , without needing to be told ?
20 No , no , I mean I would n't a video to .
21 Apropos the previous item , would n't a book of Searle cartoons showing original as well as altered captions make a fascinating ( and amusing ) study of social change ?
22 Why would n't the officer in charge tell her what was happening ?
23 Why you ca n't the day after then you mean ?
24 But why ca n't the engineer at M S one level be project engineer
25 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
26 Will not the control of inflation continue to be the cornerstone of industrial policy , because it will allow Britain to become more competitive in world markets ?
27 I wo n't the amount of times I 've I 've been in a car or something , where fucking jump on the brakes !
28 Also , wo n't the loss of Batty be liekly to give Steve Hodge a place ?
29 Can not the Secretary of State think of better uses for the perhaps upwards of £20 billion which will be spent on the Trident missile system in capital and investments ?
30 Can not the sort of difficulty which the theist experiences in terms of describing God , for instance , as personal and impersonal , be justified by pointing out that attempting to think beyond the limits of thought is bound to entail stretching ordinary language beyond what it would normally bear ?
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