Example sentences of "you [vb mod] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not need a provisional licence if you hold a full licence which states that it may be used as a provisional licence for driving other categories . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy . |
| 3 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 4 | One problem with this kind of editing is that you may not get a clean cut at the points where you stop and start . |
| 5 | You must n't tell a living soul what you just told me . |
| 6 | Dearest girl , I 've told you before , you must n't let a little bit of fluff spoil your marriage . ’ |
| 7 | The second is that you must not expect a large metropolis . |
| 8 | Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process . |
| 9 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 10 | Of course , there is no reason why you should not use a single essential oil if you are intrigued by its aroma ( rose , sandalwood and ylang-ylang are popular used singly ) , though aromatherapists have always felt they work better blended with other essences . |
| 11 | If you have done enough of the right type of training , there is no reason why you should n't give a good account of yourself . |
| 12 | There are quite a few people who would say that you should n't feed a wild badger at all . |
| 13 | to because we 've got the Legal Aid system , but I mean my son was also a repeated robbed in his car and what shocked me was the , the police they said to me you should n't have a pretty car any way , he had a brand new X R three |
| 14 | you should n't have a pretty car , I mean that is nonsense |
| 15 | So there 's no reason at all why you should n't have a few hours off . |
| 16 | You should n't need a new . |
| 17 | ‘ Normally I 'm accused of the reverse , ’ he says dryly , adding that you could not slip a playing card between him and the rest of the shadow Cabinet on policy . |
| 18 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 19 | GILLIAN said you could n't make a general remark and then exclude half the human race , because fifty per cent of the time that someone will turn out to be female . |
| 20 | ‘ You could n't beat a fucking carpet , you . |
| 21 | Indeed ‘ the whole piece is something of a dream ’ ( Hugo Young , The Guardian , 21 June 1988 ) , in which ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ ( according to Pearce ) because ‘ any resemblance between it and the world of 1988 is due to administrative oversight ’ ( Patrick Stoddart , The Sunday Times , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 22 | But at times this urgency verged on desperation as we were told by Tookey that the film ‘ utterly fails to convince ’ ; by Frank Johnson that ‘ its politics are so plainly antediluvian ’ ; by Pearce that ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ You could n't fight a retired German whore . |
| 24 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 25 | ‘ You could n't have a fairer face than Mary Bernadette Hogan , spinster of this parish , almost ten years of age , ’ said her father . |
| 26 | I think he did n't like the idea of gentle mists because you could n't put a hard line round them . ’ |
| 27 | You could n't get a regular parrot to do all that stuff . |
| 28 | You could n't get a regular job , or he could n't anyway . |
| 29 | These puppies are thriving in the warm environment , their owner says you could n't get a better start for young bird dogs . |
| 30 | And anyway , you could n't get a decent table up those stairs , they 're too narrow . |