Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must not diminish the capital value of the land by the commission of acts called ‘ waste ’ , such as cutting timber or opening mines . |
| 2 | Lenin was willing to make concessions , but not on the centralized unity of the party — ‘ we must not weaken the force of our offensive by breaking into numerous independent political parties ; we must not introduce estrangement and isolation and then have to heal an artificially implanted disease with the aid of these notorious ‘ federal ’ , plasters ’ . |
| 3 | Queen Margaret is most welcome to return but she must not bring an army of twenty thousand English ‘ advisers ’ with her . |
| 4 | The sole remaining restraint is the requirement that the advertising must not impair the solicitor 's independence and integrity and must not bring the profession into disrepute . |
| 5 | It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq . |
| 6 | They form the ultimate distillation , but must not form the only aspect of your studies ; the skeleton must be clothed , and study must be pursued into all the ramifications of the life 's work to which your books and papers direct you . |
| 7 | The implementation of the information technology strategy must avoid this relationship 's being reversed : the coding scheme must not form the test of clinical systems . |
| 8 | You must not open the gates tonight . |
| 9 | To avoid customers being prejudiced in this way , a firm must not effect a contingent liability transaction unless it can show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands : ( 1 ) The circumstances under which he may be required to provide any margin ; ( 2 ) Particulars of the form in which the margin may be provided ; ( 3 ) Particulars of the steps which the firm may be entitled to take if the customer fails to provide the required margin ; ( 4 ) That failure by the customer to meet a margin call may lead to the firm closing out his position after time limits specified by the firm , and that the firm will be required to close out the position in any event after a period of five business days ; and ( 5 ) That circumstances other than failure to provide margin may lead to the customer 's position being closed out with prior reference to him . |
| 10 | Of course , we must not exaggerate the value of doubt and forget its darker side . |
| 11 | Even when the sources of external information are straightforward , we must not underestimate the problems of analysis of that data . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , one must not underestimate the importance of earlier ideas about press freedom , nor must one underestimate the extent to which these ideas still reside within more complex statements about the mass media . |
| 13 | With or without the complicity of the government statutory services are performing a very limited role , However , we must not underestimate the potential role of services as it seems highly likely that propensity of the informal sector is enhanced rather than diminished by the support of statutory agencies . |
| 14 | Whatever the difficulties involved in applying Halliday 's model of thematic analysis to a given language , and irrespective of whether it is possible to reproduce the thematic patterning of the source text on a given occasion , one thing is certain : translators must not underestimate the cumulative effect of thematic choices on the way we interpret text . |
| 15 | ‘ We must not underestimate the challenge and the costs involved of winning new business in this field . ’ |
| 16 | In recognising this we must not underestimate the contribution made to the industrialising economy by the earlier expansion of manufacturing in response to home and overseas demand . |
| 17 | However , all this said and done , just as historians and archaeologists are today able to reconstruct the meaning of obsolescent forms of recording such as hieroglyphics or the structure and form of ancient buildings through the analysis of postholes , one must not underestimate the ability of future generations to decode the electronic records that are being created by today 's society . |
| 18 | I must not give the impression of being without sin . |
| 19 | In talking about American influences on English Nonconformity we must not give an unbalanced picture . |
| 20 | Many people ( in this authority ) are critical of the education system and of comprehensive schools , we must not give an opportunity for them to be critical . |
| 21 | The second important point is that we must not treat the institutional population as a single group . |
| 22 | In January 1949 Walton Butterworth warned the South Korean minister that the ROK must not repeat the mistakes of the Kuomintang in China . |
| 23 | The file name must not contain a node name , device , directory , logical name or version number , eg : |
| 24 | The file name must not contain a node name , device , directory , logical name or version number , eg : CONTAINS-SOURCE-OF [ USERINTERFACE ] - PREFERRED-ISSUE-IN-FILE [ USINT.CRL ] |
| 25 | Hence if we are to form a constitutive relation for the material of the rod it must not contain the dimensions . ) |
| 26 | Other types of module must not contain the ‘ FOREIGN-SET-IS ’ keyword , nor any user-supplied entries . |
| 27 | Other types of module must not contain the ‘ FOREIGN-SET-IS ’ keyword , nor any user-supplied entries . |
| 28 | Where , in complying with s 51(8) , the responsible person reduces the amount which would otherwise be awarded to the person in question , the amount of that reduction must not exceed a prescribed percentage ( for the time being 25 per cent ) and on any taxation of the costs payable by that person to his legal representative , regard must be had to the amount of the reduction ( s 51(9) ) . |
| 29 | However , the Exchange requires that the price must not exceed a price equal to 5 per cent above the average of the middle market quotations taken from the Daily Official List for the 10 business days before the purchase is made ( para 30.4 , Chapter 2 , Section 5 of the Yellow Book ) . |
| 30 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |