Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to effect transfer of vessels at either level , the two tanks must not travel on the same plane . |
| 2 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 3 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 4 | Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’ |
| 5 | While it may not fall within the same category as Dances with Wolves as an illustration of a time and people grossly misrepresented , it is a period piece of some strength and charm which just falls short of the epithet epic . |
| 6 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 7 | But those in the field , the front line could not continue without the less than glamorous work that has to be carried out back here in H Q. They also serve , who work in our offices , collect our money , keep our accounts make sure the administration is working well . |
| 8 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 9 | But if a total consciousness is an organic whole , then some or all of these parts could not exist in the same character in another different sort of whole . |
| 10 | The way in which Eadwine was able eventually to induce Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , to accept Christianity ( HE 11 , 15 ) would suggest that the eastern Anglian court was more amenable to Eadwine 's influence than the Mercian upon which Eadwine could not prevail in the same way . |
| 11 | I started to feel I could n't stay in the same room as you . |
| 12 | Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter . |
| 13 | At times , he could n't drink in the same bar as his new white team-mates but there were no barriers to him on the cricket field . |
| 14 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 15 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 16 | If he is wise , he need not deal with the latter in his guiding lectures , but will merely refer to books in which these simpler topics are well set out . |
| 17 | However because ore is a noun and are is a verb , this error would most likely be spotted by the syntactic analysis , because ore would not fit into the same word position as are in the sentence . |
| 18 | Labour 's Alan Milburn and Michael Fallon , who is defending the seat for the Tories , said they would not appear on the same political platform as Dr Clarke . |
| 19 | Clearly you would n't write in the same way for the Sun as you would for the Times or the Financial Times or the Guardian , or the Cambridge local paper . |
| 20 | I would n't bounce at the same time |
| 21 | " I shall make it plain to Howarth that you and I ca n't serve in the same Lab . |
| 22 | Alright , now not all products are going to be , you know , you ca n't switch with the same amount of ease across all products , there are only , you know , if you are erm , a wheat farmer in the south east of England , alright , you 're not likely to switch into milk production just bec just because milk prices have risen . |
| 23 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |
| 24 | The exclusion principle is crucial because it explains why matter particles do not collapse to a state of very high density under the influence of the forces produced by the particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 : if the matter particles have very nearly the same positions , they must have different velocities , which means that they will not stay in the same position for long . |
| 25 | It should be suppressed in spoken language interpreting , but in sign language interpreting it may not be , since speech and sign , at least on the surface , will not compete for the same articulator . |
| 26 | I trust that I will not fall into the same trap ! |
| 27 | Creating multimedia applications will be so much more difficult than transferring data to CD-ROM , that the number of programs will not escalate in the same way . |
| 28 | Two people may suffer pain from the same apparent origin ; and yet their pain will not yield to the same analgesic . |
| 29 | If one assumes the no boundary condition for the universe , we shall see that there must be well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , but they will not point in the same direction for the whole history of the universe . |
| 30 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |