Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must not give way to despair . |
| 2 | Was n't it Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot ( or was it Mr. Justice Wool ? ) in Misleading Cases in the Common Law who observed sternly to that persistent litigant , Mr. Haddock , ‘ People must not do things for fun . |
| 3 | Any protection screen designed for this purpose should be at least 800mm in height above floor level , and must not contain gaps in excess of 75mm . |
| 4 | Letter post items must not exceed 610mm in length by 460mm in width . |
| 5 | JACKEY : Why , aunt , if they are actually married there 's no help for't and we must not make mischief between man and wife . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ . |
| 7 | But we must not confound motive with consideration . |
| 8 | But local authority associations , professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction . |
| 9 | He must not write letters on behalf of the council or sign public notices . |
| 10 | RAPE VICTIMS Newspapers should not identify victims of rape , or publish material likely to contribute to such identification . |
| 11 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 12 | Similarly , local authorities should not refuse permission for development by small businesses on the grounds that established businesses would be adversely affected : ‘ planning control is not intended to enable local planning authorities to intervene in the normal operation of market forces ’ . |
| 13 | The subject-matter may be of a discretionary or regulatory nature and while these elements should not exclude proscriptions against bias they are likely to modify their application . |
| 14 | It was agreed that for the 1908–09 financial year , which began in July , the wage bill for eight or nine staff should not exceed £500 in total , ( an average of less than £1 each per week ) . |
| 15 | However , there may be cases where the landlord requires that the tenant should not acquire security of tenure . |
| 16 | COMMENT AND FACT Newspapers should not express comment on conjecture as fact and should distinguish between them , but they are free to be partisan . |
| 17 | But C.C. 's abnormal difficulty in judging vertical symmetry is caused by his neglect for the left of figures , which should not disrupt judgements of symmetry about the horizontal axis . |
| 18 | The Institute supports the ASB 's development of a statement of principles , but maintains that the statement should not anticipate points of debate that will appear in future standards . |
| 19 | The law says that once the employment contracts have been accepted by the employee , then the employer should not make changes without agreement . |
| 20 | In the first place it is essential to the concept of graded tests that they should be taken by students when they are ready , from time to time throughout their school career , or indeed after school ( there is no reason why a grandmother and granddaughter should not practise side by side for their Grade 1 piano examination ) . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the openings in companies ' legal departments are much fewer than in private practice ; and in any case you should not consider articles in commerce or industry unless you are keen to make this your career . |
| 22 | So you think that as a general rule , museums should not sell works of art ? |
| 23 | Yet the Lord Chief Justice , giving oral evidence , said that he and the Lord Chancellor were at one in their belief that religious affinity should not take precedence over ability in the appointment of judges and , said The Times , he gave the impression that his positive feelings towards the judge were shared by the Lord Chancellor So oral evidence was admitted on the kind of matter for which privilege from disclosure of documents was claimed by the Crown . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've told the farmer he should not use women for work with the threshing-machine . |
| 25 | We should not seek immortality in reproduction . |
| 26 | Well that 's true but maybe , you know and if you 've to drink she , maybe you should n't drink sherry on top of what you 've had injected into you . |
| 27 | Sho sho you should n't throw stones in glass houses ! |
| 28 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 29 | I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ? |
| 30 | Doctors say the problems should n't put lives at risk … but the problem will get worse unless more resources are forthcoming . |