Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet he should not weep too long because old stone face himself , Ivan Lendl , made five attempts to land a major title . |
| 6 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 9 | I may not move as fast as you , but we 'll be there in good time . |
| 10 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 11 | Agreed the working masses may not bath as regularly as might be wished , but they all drink tea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bream are a very impressive fish and though they might not fight as bravely as tench , carp or barbel , they do look big . |
| 16 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 19 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 20 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 23 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 24 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 25 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 26 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 27 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 28 | ‘ Come off it , you do consistently well in all your modules — I 've had a word with your course tutor — and as you 've been continually assessed , you could n't flunk now even if you wanted to . |
| 29 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 30 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |