Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — One should not assume that equal opportunities and career development do n't go together |
| 2 | Hence , for example , in the case of the educational system , we should not assume that dominant ideologies about women necessarily give rise to uniform practices in schools and amongst teachers . |
| 3 | She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ . |
| 4 | Others may not realise that some antibiotics interfere with the Pill 's effectiveness . |
| 5 | If they give advice , they mainly do it after a lifetime 's experience and because they are anxious to help — though I 'll not deny that some parents can be real nasties as far as their children are concerned . |
| 6 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 7 | However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups . |
| 8 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 9 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 10 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 11 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 12 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 14 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 15 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 16 | Certainly , one can not argue that all computations carried out by animals must be effected symbolically . |
| 17 | Without such concepts I can not see that human infants could acquire a language ’ ( 1982 : 47 ) . |