Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It must not be assumed that everyone wishes to participate — ‘ active citizenship ’ ( to use one of the Conservative Party 's catchphrases ) is not for everyone .
2 It must not be assumed that everyone initially agrees about the implications .
3 It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’
4 But it must not be thought that he was in this alone in his society : there were others also who were not .
5 However , it is worth noting that this task of leading housegroups is one of the most difficult in the whole church and it should not be assumed that everyone will be able to do it .
6 While we have charted the moves away from the more strident outpourings of the 1979 campaign , within the Conservatives ' law and order strategy over the last decade , it should not be assumed that they will not revert to this rhetoric if the need arises .
7 The policy of buying off the raiders may often have seemed sensible , and it should not be assumed that he was always criticised for it , even by those who provided the money .
8 It should not be assumed that there will never be circumstances when , notwithstanding the new CGT rules , someone domiciled and resident in the UK should set up an offshore trust .
9 Although he was paid a handsome salary by GE to be a morale booster and public relations spokesman , it should not be assumed that his role was merely that of a glad hander , a retired film star capitalizing on a fading reputation .
10 I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee .
11 It certainly should not be thought that he overthrew all other kings .
12 If the new VAT rules have brought vexations in their wake , it should not be forgotten that they have been introduced because frontier controls are abolished from today .
13 Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls .
14 Also , it should not be forgotten that it is raw data that is being presented and not refined information .
15 Franklin Roosevelt could be said to fall into the former category , but it should not be forgotten that he took office at a moment of great crisis in American history and was aided by unusually large majorities in both houses of the legislature .
16 If , as indicated above , there are paramount safety and environmental reasons for addressing the traffic problem in residential areas , then it should not be forgotten that there are social arguments too .
17 It should not be forgotten that there are different systems of law even within the UK , so that even for domestic sales such a clause avoids a potential source of confusion .
18 I think that 's it 's a liberty that should n't be taken that they 're playing with miners health and their lives .
19 This social sanction will be , in the first place , some kind of social ostracism or discomfort ; it may or may not be wished that it be associated with a legal penalty .
20 He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement .
21 ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) .
22 As the Court of Appeal put it : ‘ Somebody was not telling the truth and it could not be said that it was not a relevant matter for the jury to be told that one man had been dishonest in the past . ’
23 They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct .
24 Mrs Frizzell eased herself — it could not be said that she exactly pushed — through the crowd so that she was next to Mrs Hnatiuk , while Maxie stopped to talk to clients .
25 As the company was a separate legal entity , and in the particular circumstances ( through its directing mind and will ) had consented to the husband 's drawing the cheques , it could not be said that he had appropriated the company 's property .
26 The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ .
27 And I would n't be thinking that I was making an investment , if you understand me . ’
28 It ca n't be assumed that they will just learn and pick things up as they go along .
29 That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct .
30 And when you come down , remember to do so with dignity , so that Dom João will not be thinking that he is betrothed to a tinker 's daughter . "
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