Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the others they must not forget about roast Gnome being a traditional dish for the Gruagach 's grander festivals . |
| 2 | Taiwan must not come under communist control ; it was not essential for the United States to control the island but the Chinese communists must not capture it . |
| 3 | Economics must not come before democratic politics . |
| 4 | According to the functionalist , then , to explain the existence of a social institution we must not look for purposive intention on the part of individuals but , rather , we should investigate the fact that the social system as a whole requires its needs to be satisfied . |
| 5 | The problem should not arise during direct processing , as every valid key has a corresponding record . |
| 6 | It was concerned that proposed new arrangements should not lead to undue development in sensitive areas and it favoured a degree of continuing Government control over minimum standards at motorway service areas . |
| 7 | Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger ; it should be so easy that you can stick with the diet until all the weight is off . |
| 8 | The privatised electricity industry should not rely on imported coal ‘ dumped ’ at artificially low prices , he said . |
| 9 | The consultant emphasised if she followed his instructions implicitly there was no reason she should not return to full health . |
| 10 | In most industries economies of scale usually lead to cost reductions , and within limits , there is no reason why the same principle should not apply to flying training . |
| 11 | The reasonable foreseeability test should not apply in strict liability torts as foresight of damage is not generally required to establish liability . |
| 12 | In an effort to improve relations with senior officers on the question of homosexuals in the armed services , he moved closer to agreeing that recruiting officers should not ask about sexual orientation and that recruits should not flaunt it . |
| 13 | And the relative autonomy of certain factors within the whole allows the possibility of uneven development ; for example an economic mode of production may run ahead of a legitimating ideology , or a scientific revolution may not lead to technological change . |
| 14 | These impairments may or may not lead to functional disability , resulting in a handicap . |
| 15 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 16 | To tell people you are ‘ deaf ’ may not result in immediate co-operation . |
| 17 | A circulation in excess of 10 will probably lead to a leak within the entity 's trade sector ; a circulation of less than 5 may not result in competitive bidding . |
| 18 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |
| 19 | As implied earlier , there are some other groups of adjectives which also may not appear in predicative position because of the meaning of this construction , but their introduction must await further discussion , in particular of the notions of sense-modification and separative qualification ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 20 | These may or may not progress to cervical cancer . |
| 21 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 22 | Although patients with infarction may vomit at presentation or secondary to opiate administration , this usually settles with antiemetics and may not interfere with oral therapy . |
| 23 | Whatever view is taken of this analysis , and it will be discussed more fully below , it seems to state quite clearly that the determination of sex is a matter for lawyers and courts ; that the law , in other words , must establish methods for determining sex which may or may not correspond to medical opinion . |
| 24 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 25 | In addition , one could argue ( though this might not meet with unanimous agreement within the experimental community ) that repeated experiments with the same subjects indicate that conformity with SEU behaviour increases with repetition . |
| 26 | This was drawn up on account of the difficulty which the negotiators at The Hague had in agreeing whether or not irregular forces in occupied territory might or might not qualify for combatant status , but its words have a wider relevance : |
| 27 | The new coalition government gave the Prime Minister an increased majority in parliament , but observers commented that this might not translate into electoral support . |
| 28 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 29 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 30 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |