Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to be aware that trade unions are organisations in their own right , and we must not assume too hastily or too readily that the goals of a trade union organisation are the same as those of its members or full-time officials . |
| 2 | You must not worry too much if she seems a bit depressed during the first few months , instead of being a ‘ sweet and grateful granny ’ . |
| 3 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | But if Sartre anticipates such later thinkers we should not assume too quickly that they have simply taken his insights further . |
| 6 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 7 | Yet he should not weep too long because old stone face himself , Ivan Lendl , made five attempts to land a major title . |
| 8 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 9 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 10 | ‘ Irish League fans should n't worry too much that their clubs have fallen behind those in the League of Ireland . |
| 11 | ‘ Irish League fans should n't worry too much that their clubs have fallen behind those in the League of Ireland . |
| 12 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 13 | I may not move as fast as you , but we 'll be there in good time . |
| 14 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 15 | A group action may not turn out exactly as the individuals involved intended ; but in order for it to happen at all there must be individuals acting on the basis of various desires , beliefs and intentions . |
| 16 | Agreed the working masses may not bath as regularly as might be wished , but they all drink tea . |
| 17 | When Le Roux bought Norton Motors in 1987 with shareholder and bank money , he knew there was a risk the profit might not flow as quickly as hoped . |
| 18 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 19 | Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it . |
| 20 | Bream are a very impressive fish and though they might not fight as bravely as tench , carp or barbel , they do look big . |
| 21 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 22 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 23 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 24 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 25 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 26 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 27 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 28 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 29 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 30 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |