Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted .
2 But it should not lead to a price rise in British shops , said industry leaders .
3 Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter .
4 As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police .
5 In most circumstances internal KPMG referrals or requests for limited assistance from other offices , such as an introduction to an existing client or provision of non proprietary knowledge gained from a previous assignment , should not result in a fee being paid by the originating office to the receiving office .
6 However , word hypotheses compete on the Chart , not in the lexicon , so this similarity of status should not matter from a processing point of view .
7 Unless a serious breach of your contract has taken place , or your employer has made it clear that it will take place , you should not leave in a huff .
8 There are occasions when a councillor should not serve on a committee .
9 Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) .
10 It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby .
11 In the last sentence erm my view is that we should not wait for an application to build on this site .
12 There was no reason why the ordinary law of contract should not apply to an agreement under s 54 as to any other agreement .
13 This type of criticism should not apply in a database environment .
14 That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse .
15 Many treaties are incidentally unfavourable to non-parties , but a third party generally has no grounds for claiming that other States should not enter into a treaty .
16 If you do not pay income tax , but your spouse does , you should not enter into a Deed of Covenant on your own .
17 This resonated with his reading of Romantic poets such as Wordsworth , who also expressed a concern that science should not degenerate into a search for mere details .
18 The acquirer should not agree to a clause which states that if by completion it is aware of a breach of warranty and it still elects to proceed to completion it thereby waives any claim for damages .
19 ‘ We must n't fall into a trap , Dexter . ’
20 I think , I take your point Ivor , and we do n't dissent from it , what we have to guard against , two things , one , that the Committee becomes big and cumbersome , and two , of course , we must n't get into a situation where a regional representative is repre is influencing decisions made elsewhere in the county , that 's the effect of the
21 But my aim was to join Must n't Grumble as a rhythm guitarist .
22 Zelda says , ‘ You should n't go into a relationship saying , ‘ I 'll alter him ’ , or ‘ Once we 're married … ’ , because they may not change , and what will you do then ? ’
23 No , I do n't see any reason why we should n't arrive at a costing based on the costing quoted before .
24 With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out .
25 One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine .
26 It should n't happen to a doc !
27 The Business is constantly engaged in negotiations which may or may not lead to a contract .
28 Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers .
29 There is no requirement to name the potential offeror , and the announcement may simply be that the talks may or may not lead to an offer being made .
30 ( c ) following an approach to the board of the target company , which may or may not lead to an offer , the primary responsibility lies with the board of the target , which must accordingly keep a close watch on its share price .
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