Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must not build them on the graveyard . |
| 2 | Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point . |
| 3 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 4 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
| 5 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 6 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
| 7 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 9 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 10 | If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities . |
| 11 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 12 | In the Miller 's Prologue , the Miller 's supposed drunkenness should not blind us to the measured good sense and balance of the mind implied within the character who speaks as the Miller . |
| 13 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 14 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 15 | But excuse me , my grandmother , I must n't keep her in the cold . ’ |
| 16 | You must n't put them in the front ! |
| 17 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |
| 18 | No , I should n't put them in the garage they 'll get damp there . |
| 19 | ( Nerves do n't count — you should n't have them after the practice sessions . ) |
| 20 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 21 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 22 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 23 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 24 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 25 | In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on . |
| 26 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 27 | well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper |
| 28 | Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not . |
| 29 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
| 30 | ‘ But they 'll not let her beyond the parish-union boundary except by way of proper apprenticeship , ’ he added . |