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

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1 We must not assume that any reading of any artwork is in itself permanent or natural .
2 In an interview with French radio the following day he said that " we must not forget that this government has a lifespan which may be limited by the national sovereign conference " [ see below ] .
3 We must not imagine that such information is confined to large businesses .
4 She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ .
5 Others may not realise that some antibiotics interfere with the Pill 's effectiveness .
6 Erm , I do n't , I do n't know what er people are er afraid of , or frightened of really , j just by sending a couple of delegates from the trades councils that would er voice the concerns of the rank and file , it 's not going to er set any dangerous precedents , and let's , let's not forget that those people would be from recognized trades unions as well .
7 If they give advice , they mainly do it after a lifetime 's experience and because they are anxious to help — though I 'll not deny that some parents can be real nasties as far as their children are concerned .
8 She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real .
9 ‘ All loans that we have outstanding would appear in the balance sheet under the loan portfolio , ’ a spokeswoman said , but she would not confirm that this item currently includes the Bond loan .
10 However , I would not claim that these displays have any culturally mediated symbolic meaning , as do the myths and rituals which bind human groups .
11 Few would argue about animals , but many would not agree that this generalisation is true of all the insane .
12 Following a recent PAYE audit the officer concerned would not accept that this vehicle is a pool car because of the factor just described above .
13 Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation .
14 We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented .
15 On the other hand , we can not assume that all people accused of Jacobite activity were guilty as charged ; some fell victim to the false allegations of professional perjurers .
16 We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend .
17 We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend .
18 If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right .
19 We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception .
20 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
21 And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment .
22 Admittedly , the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial : but I can not believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election .
23 Burton 's devil was a terrible and limitless sense of driving pleasure : it was fuelled by awesome capacity and the hunger of those who can not believe that such fortune will not vanish before their appetite is appeased .
24 I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time .
25 I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim .
26 An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used .
27 With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach .
28 Mr Smith 's survival techniques are sound and I can not imagine that any accountant would gainsay them .
29 Certainly , one can not argue that all computations carried out by animals must be effected symbolically .
30 In the case of statements made in Parliament , as at present advised I can not foresee that any statement other than the statement of the minister or other promoter of the Bill is likely to meet these criteria .
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