Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must not assume that any reading of any artwork is in itself permanent or natural . |
| 2 | In an interview with French radio the following day he said that " we must not forget that this government has a lifespan which may be limited by the national sovereign conference " [ see below ] . |
| 3 | We must not imagine that such information is confined to large businesses . |
| 4 | The reader should not conclude that experimental fluid mechanics is primarily a matter of ‘ look and see ’ ; one always aims to express results as quantitatively as possible . |
| 5 | — One should not assume that equal opportunities and career development do n't go together |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Others may not realise that some antibiotics interfere with the Pill 's effectiveness . |
| 9 | Erm , I do n't , I do n't know what er people are er afraid of , or frightened of really , j just by sending a couple of delegates from the trades councils that would er voice the concerns of the rank and file , it 's not going to er set any dangerous precedents , and let's , let's not forget that those people would be from recognized trades unions as well . |
| 10 | Because he or she appears to manage , the owners might not realise that old age is taking its toll and that the dog has become much more attached to them because of its sudden psychological inability to cope with the environment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the politicians and civil servants could not agree that further expenditure on the development of broadcasting should be given priority : |
| 13 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 14 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 15 | In the short term Soviet spokesmen need not feel that general support for the Zone idea will harm Soviet Vietnamese relations or act to isolate Vietnam . |
| 16 | ‘ All loans that we have outstanding would appear in the balance sheet under the loan portfolio , ’ a spokeswoman said , but she would not confirm that this item currently includes the Bond loan . |
| 17 | However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups . |
| 18 | Few would argue about animals , but many would not agree that this generalisation is true of all the insane . |
| 19 | Following a recent PAYE audit the officer concerned would not accept that this vehicle is a pool car because of the factor just described above . |
| 20 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 21 | We can not suppose that one action is good and another not good unless we can pick out a further relevant difference between them . |
| 22 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 23 | In short , we can not assume that higher education is a site of pure reason . |
| 24 | On the other hand , we can not assume that all people accused of Jacobite activity were guilty as charged ; some fell victim to the false allegations of professional perjurers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right . |
| 28 | We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |