Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 For the Evening Standard of 2 April , Baker penned a piece on ‘ Why we must not allow our tolerance to be abused ’ .
2 However , the label ’ semantic ’ will continue to be used , although it is intended that the reader should not restrict its denotation to the strict linguistic sense .
3 Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit .
4 Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit .
5 Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit .
6 ‘ He would see no reason why we should not make our contribution to the royal coronation . ’
7 The discretion was exercised by Booth J. She took into account various matters relating to the interests of the boys and concluded that she should not order their return to Australia .
8 Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court .
9 Not all infested people will develop symptoms , and those who do may not ascribe their itching to the presence of crabs in the pubic area .
10 But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him .
11 In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been .
12 ‘ I could not entrust my life to strangers , ’ he said .
13 I could not forget my promise to the monster , and the awful work that waited for me .
14 Now Hyde could not show his face to the world again .
15 Councillor David Warner , while commenting that he could not bring his find to the council meeting , reported that he had spied a full sized bath with one tap which had been thrown in the hedge in Tunbridge Lane .
16 Consequently , the former could not owe their form to the latter , and so magical correspondences between them were eliminated .
17 Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy .
18 Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further .
19 Catherine could not keep her happiness to herself .
20 It was only on Aug. 21 that the CPSU had stated its opposition to the coup , when Ivashko demanded to see Gorbachev , because the party could not define its attitude to recent events without its leader .
21 The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish .
22 The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish .
23 But her colleagues and superiors could not fault her dedication to the job , speaking highly of her nursing ability .
24 He was loud against ‘ these new religions ’ ; his woodland life and really intense sympathy with Nature could not overcome his adherence to traditional views of religion .
25 On security issues , Solomon reassured the leaders that the US would not abandon its commitment to a strong regional presence .
26 Franco was quick to exploit the lack of unity in Allied attitudes to Spain , accusing the United States of intransigence and ingratitude and stating defiantly that Spain would not curtail its aid to Germany under Allied duress .
27 And he made clear that even if British Coal decided against a reprieve the Government would not block its sale to a private company .
28 In December 1977 the Headmistress of St Anselm 's School in Canterbury , one of Britain 's leading Roman Catholic Comprehensives , allowed a teacher who was a National Front candidate to continue in her post alter she had promised that her National Front views would not affect her treatment to black pupils .
29 These rights of control over one 's own possessions are valued rights — we would not want our shirt to be stolen , torn , or dyed by someone else — but this all-embracing idea of ‘ property rights ’ conceals a crucial difference between different forms of property .
30 On Dec. 4 Koirala had been quoted in Katmandu as saying that Nepal would not allow its territory to be used as bases by activists from the Indian states of Punjab , Kashmir and Assam .
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