Example sentences of "they [modal v] not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not reach maturity for several years . |
| 2 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 3 | It is for broadcasting authorities to determine what constitutes the appropriate degree of impartiality , and they must not lose sight of their obligation not to include in their programmes matter which is likely to encourage or incite crime or be offensive to public feeling . |
| 4 | Even so , the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends , for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation . |
| 5 | As far as we are concerned , events before the big bang can have no consequences , so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe . |
| 6 | Particularly having regard to the weight of the evidence against W , it was extremely important to remind the jury that W had a right to respond as he had done , was not bound to answer questions , and that they should not infer guilt from any failure to respond . |
| 7 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 8 | They should not take account of side-effects if the sole effect is via the prices of products or factors . |
| 9 | They are trained professionals but they should n't lose sight of the importance of getting children to accept the discipline that comes with education . |
| 10 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 11 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 12 | A they could n't er they could n't get er th they could n't provide accommodation for all the hundreds that they were , you see . |
| 13 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 14 | Most of her friends from school lived with their parents , and most of them were poor ; they could n't have Jamila with them . |
| 15 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 16 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 17 | They could not go side by side . |
| 18 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 19 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 20 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 21 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 22 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 23 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 24 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 25 | Successful though holidays may be they would not take place without a large bank balance . |
| 26 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 27 | They would not escape tax for October 1985 to April 1986 at all ; the special rules meant double taxation . |
| 28 | And er whatever whatever it was they said that er they would n't chance operating on him . |
| 29 | they would n't have room in one car for four dogs would they ? |
| 30 | They would n't take part in operations . |