Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [noun sg] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But we must not confound motive with consideration . |
| 3 | I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ? |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’ |
| 5 | The group discussions ( Appendix II ) , which concentrated on people who it has been suggested might face difficulty getting credit because their backgrounds might not find favour with lenders , again showed very little sign that even ‘ problem ’ customers are often refused credit which they try to get . |
| 6 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 7 | Under the scheme proposed here , young people would gain the wage-packet , would not lose contact with education ( they would be in college or school , initially for two days a week ) and would have gained an employer interested in developing their skills . |
| 8 | The boys with whom I associated would not keep company with Journeymen excepting in their workshops , nor with lads whose fathers were not housekeepers . " |
| 9 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 10 | Well , no , I ca n't lose touch with Franca , we 're eternally connected , but she 'd become — sort of holy , frail . |
| 11 | You clearly ca n't have sex with fellas you ai n't fond of . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't mix business with friendship , ’ Jane–urged , ‘ and anyway the friendship is n't that close . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't argue politics with foreigners , ’ sighed the policeman . |
| 14 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 15 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 16 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 17 | There is now widespread evidence that the transport infrastructure can not keep pace with growth , and the Confederation of British Industry argues that traffic congestion is now costing the country some £15bn a year . |