Example sentences of "it [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 2 | Even though it may not qualify for listing , the building may have interesting features — architectural details , original doors or internal fittings . |
| 3 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 4 | It is an option to fall back on if you have to ; it is certainly appropriate for relatives , especially parents , to assist in this way , but it is not sought as the most desirable arrangement in the circumstances and therefore it should not last for too long . |
| 5 | With luck it might not return for months . |
| 6 | ‘ It might not happen for Andrew for two or three years , but I know he will get a chance if he is good enough . |
| 7 | These changes and realizations , he credited to his experiences with LSD though conceded that it might not work for others in the same way . |
| 8 | Mr Brodie said : ‘ We are not interested in the money because , however much it was , it could not compensate for losing Emma and the way it happened . |
| 9 | ( vii ) If the court reaches the point of weighing the social needs in issue , first that of securing to the council the effective means in law of protecting its reputation and , secondly , that of protecting the right of free expression of the people of this country , the court should hold that the remaining remedies for the council , if it could not sue for libel , and in particular the action for malicious falsehood , would not be a sufficient protection for the council 's reputation , and the ability of a local authority such as the council to sue for libel would not improperly or unnecessarily restrict free expression . |
| 10 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 11 | It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another . |
| 12 | She might get a few days riding from it , but it could not survive for long . |
| 13 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 14 | And it need n't last for ever . |
| 15 | It ca n't last for ever . |
| 16 | But anyway ’ — she nodded her head briskly now — ‘ it ca n't last for ever . |
| 17 | It worked well enough for some , but it ca n't work for all . |
| 18 | Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos . |
| 19 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 20 | ‘ It would n't do for her to hear your voice just like that . |
| 21 | It would n't do for them to meet now . |
| 22 | It would n't do for him to reveal the truth to Tyler Blacklock , because then that young man would no doubt turn heaven and earth upside down to find his sweetheart . |
| 23 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 24 | It would n't do for him to look round and see her ; on the other hand , she wanted to reach the shops before he did . |
| 25 | Still , it would n't do for me to go around claiming the authentic Machin genes . |
| 26 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 27 | It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel . |
| 28 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 29 | It would not do for always , but it would do for now . |
| 30 | After all , it would not do for me , a T'ang , to breach the Edict , would it ? ’ |