Example sentences of "they [vb mod] 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 | 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 . |
10 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
11 | They could not go side by side . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Successful though holidays may be they would not take place without a large bank balance . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | They would not escape tax for October 1985 to April 1986 at all ; the special rules meant double taxation . |
22 | They will not escape evaluation of a sort . |
23 | " Control " for these purposes is defined by s840 TA 1988 and it is likely that , though management has control for close company purposes within the meaning of s416 , they will not have control within the meaning of s840 while the institutional investors remain in place , because there will be powers conferred by Newco 's Articles of Association , or in the subscription agreement , that enable the institutions to control Newco within s840 . |
24 | Lord Flowers , vice-chancellor of London University , says the vice-chancellers are prepared to discuss funding mechanisms with the Government , but must make the point that they will not accept under-funding of the universities . |
25 | They could be big fish , but their heartfelt politics should mean they will not become part of the corporate rock machine . |
26 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |
27 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
28 | Most people find they can not tolerate sugar after that period . |
29 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
30 | The prison officers can not afford accommodation in both places — in fact , they can not afford accommodation in either — and they are contemplating leaving the prison service for what will probably be a life on the dole . |