Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You must not think that Sir Charles spoke to anyone about you , ’ I said .
2 So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) .
3 The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized .
4 I should not think that Mr Kinnock would have the same need for such structures . ’
5 When considering their applicability to particular organizations it is necessary to heed Clegg and Dunkerley 's warning that we should not assume that power resources will have equal utility to the members of all organizations in all situations .
6 But you should not assume that college teachers are all professionally-trained teachers .
7 There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought .
8 You may not think that access cards for greater access are a good idea , but what are you proposing should be done to double the age-participation rate in this country ?
9 In the realm of the print , however , it is safe to say that paper napkins and chewing gum wrappers occupy the lower depths ( though let's not forget that A. Hyatt Mayor , the legendary Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan , acquired torn-off New Yorker covers for the collection as well as Tiepolo etchings ) .
10 Anyone under 21 might not realise that Rod Stewart was not always a smug , smarmy middle of the road crooner .
11 Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed .
12 An RUC spokesman said he could not confirm that police officers involved had not been suspended .
13 They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not .
14 Still the 29-year-old could not celebrate because Anders Forsbrand closed with five straight birdies for a 65 which tied the 29-year-old Englishman on 271 .
15 There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else .
16 You really need not fear that Dr. Briant will be anything other than an excellent father to this child .
17 Since bilateral speech need not imply that speech functions are distributed equally between the hemispheres this does not necessarily conflict with the finding that the proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage was highest among the strongly left handed .
18 Increases in producer prices were announced for tea ( up 75 per cent to Sh35 per kilogram with immediate effect ) and grade A cotton ( up 63 per cent with effect from December 1989 ) ; coffee prices would not change until world prices improved .
19 Although it is possible to ‘ hedge ’ against this risk by operating on the ‘ forward ’ market , this involves traders in additional costs which would not exist if exchange rates were fixed .
20 There is a suggestion that the Soviet Union would not object if Mr Alexander Dubcek succeeded Mr Husak .
21 A source at the meeting would not deny that Mr Havel 's candidacy was being actively considered .
22 But as for a figure , I would n't say that Mrs Bretton-Fawcett has a figure , no more than Agnes here has one , because they are both like drainpipes … ’
23 It does n't matter if he ca n't sing because Young Walsingham does n't utter a note . ’
24 How you can be less pro-active than I M R O I ca n't understand or I M R O at that particular time , but what it appears to be me is that erm that if we 're not careful , we 're gon th the pension regulator 's just gon na be a rubber stamp factory .
25 Regardless of the political changes , she says , Russian ballet will not change until Moscow critics become honest and the West 's great choreographers are welcomed in .
26 I wo n't continue as EC negotiator , ’ Mr MacSharry wrote to Mr Delors in Brussels .
27 But our affair wo n't end until desire ends , and , as I said the other night , we 've not done with each other yet . ’
28 At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance .
29 I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment .
30 Just because Ms Average is a cooperative rather than competitive speaker , we can not assume that Jane Smith who is sitting in front of you will not deliver the goods .
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