Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we must not forget our island jewels of Sardinia , Sicily , Elba , Ischia , Lipari and Capri . |
| 2 | Other than using it for business purposes , there are no restrictions — except , of course , that you must not overstep your borrowing limit . |
| 3 | However , where the directors are together the majority shareholders , they must not abuse their voting control to discriminate against the minority . |
| 4 | As guidebooks will tell you , you should not rush your acclimatisation period when you arrive in the Far East . |
| 5 | For instance , a board member whose own firm is on the wrong side of a squeeze should not misuse his board position to try and break the squeeze . |
| 6 | So then , there seems little reason why I should not undertake my motoring trip to the West Country . |
| 7 | But we should not forget what Comrade Winnie Mandela has gone through and her immense contribution to the liberation struggle . |
| 8 | We should not forget our animal origins or our brain 's capacity to malfunction or the hidden potential of the unconscious mind . |
| 9 | In order to reduce our losses perhaps we should not renew our BMA subscriptions ? |
| 10 | Strange that he should not support his hometown club do nt you think ? |
| 11 | Eating your greens may not make your hair curl , but knowing what might happen to you if you do n't eat enough cabbage and other vegetables and fruit might make your hair stand on end . |
| 12 | The fact that R&D-intensive companies in some sectors may not perceive their market rating as appropriate to their future profitability is ‘ a symptom of a communication problem ’ ( pharmaceutical/health care company ) ; an inappropriate market rating is due to a ‘ failure of communications rather than a failure in accounting ’ ( metals and mining sector company ) . |
| 13 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 14 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 15 | Though this following comment may not affect her work performance as such , Muriel is a person with strong views generally , particularly about religion . |
| 16 | There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) . |
| 17 | The prescription of glasses may not help their reading distance , but they may be able to read adequately by holding their books at closer than the normal distance . |
| 18 | A vertical restraint may take one of two forms : one is unilateral imposition of substantive conditions for supply , for example a manufacturer saying ‘ you may not take my product X unless you also take my product Y ’ . |
| 19 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 20 | Christie will face a strong line-up , including Michael Rosswess , the Birchfield Harrier who won both his international 60 metres races in Glasgow last winter but could not clinch his Auckland trip . |
| 21 | An estimated 2 million households in 1987 could not meet their repayment commitments . |
| 22 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 23 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 24 | Kathmandu : THE PRINCESS of Wales strained her ankle yesterday on a pebbly path in Nepal 's Himalayan foothills — but went on to tease puffing press photographers who still could not match her pace.The Princess walked briskly through the rough , rocky terrain on a walkabout during the second day of her solo visit to Nepal.After straining her ankle on a pebbled road in Dharan in eastern Nepal she began to limp slightly , but her pace still left Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker and several photographers gasping for breath.The Princess could not resist the temptation to chide them . |
| 25 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 27 | As Australia 's forward coach , Evans did great work when he helped Alan Jones but the season before last he could not complete his coaching contract with the Gordon Club in Sydney because of his illness . |
| 28 | Was this Sir Ronald 's own change , or is he the victim of some editor who could not resist what H G Wells called the greatest passion ? |
| 29 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 30 | He said Munn got involved in the plan after meeting two men in a pub in Belfast and ‘ bemoaning ’ he could not afford his car insurance after a court appearance for non-payment . |