Example sentences of "he [modal v] not [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 2 | Lucien felt he should not answer in the affirmative . |
| 3 | The solicitor contacted by the first defendant and Mr. Morgan for the purposes of the new will , Mr. Burgess , concluded that the deceased lacked testamentary competence and that he should not proceed in the matter . |
| 4 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 5 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 6 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 7 | Where the employer was in breach of this duty he could not rely on the defence of common employment . |
| 8 | But , as the king found , he could not rely upon the Flemings ; their links with England were too strong for them to act with determination against those who supplied them with the wool upon which their own economic prosperity depended . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the receivers , from the accountancy firm , Arthur Andersen , said he could not comment on the possibility of a buy-out at Birmingham . |
| 10 | He could not stand from a sitting position without using his arms and walked with difficulty unsupported . |
| 11 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 12 | But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him . |
| 13 | But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him . |
| 14 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 15 | He could not walk into a room without arousing a response . |
| 16 | His legs were thin and weak , and he could not walk in a straight line . |
| 17 | She had other questions but Stan chose not to be sidetracked from the serious business of telling Oliver he could not stay on the premises after all . |
| 18 | But he could not complain of the unsuitability of the friendship between his wife and Isobel , and at times it was extremely useful . |
| 19 | He gagged on the sourness so that he could not speak into the telephone . |
| 20 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 21 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 22 | He felt he had scarcely fallen asleep , he was dreaming of a black river , with no banks , yet there was something there , a source of light that he wanted to reach , which he could not reach against the cold drive of the current … |
| 23 | Anthony Bowden , chairman of the all-party pensioners group , said last night that he could not vote against the whole basis of the Budget . |
| 24 | Anthony Bowden , the chairman of the all-party pensioners group , said last night that he could not vote against the whole basis of the Budget . |
| 25 | Kirk then stated that he could not concur in the order and that Robertson expressed his disappointment , but stated that he could not " bother at this time who might or might not be handed over to be shot " and would send his telegram anyway . |
| 26 | John survived only because he could not settle in the cabin with his brother and sister . |
| 27 | John escaped death because he could not settle in the doomed cabin where 15-year-old Catherine and 12-year-old James were sleeping . |
| 28 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |
| 29 | He could not think of a single convincing excuse that would get him out of the house . |
| 30 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |