Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would not give another year of my life to a new version , he wrote . |
| 2 | ‘ I assure you that I will not give any offence to the Lady Yolande . |
| 3 | I give him credit for that , although I can not give much credit to his policy of favouring a 50 per cent . |
| 4 | I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February . |
| 5 | I can not give any estimate of its arrival . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not give any indication on which companies we are meeting but suffice it to say that one is trade and the other two venture . |
| 7 | The next witness was the Duchess 's cook , who spoke very angrily and said that she would not give any evidence . |
| 8 | Four years later , when the Bishopric of Bath and Wells fell vacant , the King rejected all other suggestions and declared , ‘ Who shall have Bath and Wells but that little black fellow who would not give poor Nellie a lodging ? ’ |
| 9 | The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society . |
| 10 | As teachers … we can not give this faculty to those who do not already possess it , as a natural endowment , in the degree which literary criticism demands . |
| 11 | International mail involves the postal services of other countries as well as our own , so we can not give precise service standards . |
| 12 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 13 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 14 | As the guest calling himself Mr Smythe did not have legal title to the cheque , he could not give legal title to the hotelier ; therefore , the cheque would not be paid and the hotelier would suffer the loss . |
| 15 | Sir John told Mrs Kennedy he could not give precise figures of what job opportunities would arise from the transfer . |
| 16 | He felt he could not give public evidence , for fear of reprisals against his family in Colombia , but spoke with great compassion about the plight of ‘ disappeared ’ people in his native country . |
| 17 | But he could not give supporting fire to protect the civilian drivers because women and children were in the way . |
| 18 | Note that the transmitter control will only allow you to reduce the response ; it can not give more throw than the mechanical linkage will allow . |
| 19 | Fenton regrets that he can not give personal advice . |