Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Even if you only cook properly at weekends , it is something , and you must not neglect your health by eating processed foods all the time or by skipping meals altogether .
2 ‘ It is always a pleasure to talk to you , but I must not detain you .
3 ‘ I must not detain you any longer , Madame . ’
4 If you retain real career ambitions , this is a harsh truth which you can not entirely ignore , even if in the end you decide that you must not abandon your legal rights of redress .
5 The case of Donoghue v. Stevenson is noted moreover for the general test as to liability in negligence propounded by Lord Atkin where he says : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour .
6 There are passages in the speeches in your Lordship 's House which support each of these views : but I think the true principle is contained simply in this : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour by your fault . ’
7 There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care .
8 But you must not build them on the graveyard .
9 A great deal of work is done in our schools , and we must not underestimate it .
10 Taiwan must not come under communist control ; it was not essential for the United States to control the island but the Chinese communists must not capture it .
11 First it must not lead us into a relativist position regarding Scripture as but one of many revelations of God .
12 You must not lift your pencil from the paper until you have completed the figure .
13 This is again to put it broadly — that they must not exercise their powers arbitrarily or so unreasonably that the exercise of the discretion is clearly unjustifiable .
14 A National Curriculum must not enforce one rigid , prescriptive role on teachers , but allow them freedom to develop their own initiatives .
15 Her Uncle Wong , her grandmother 's friend , who was now under a shadow so deep that without being told , Maggie knew she must not mention his name , her beloved Uncle Wong had given her Fenna .
16 I must not do anything , she thought , anything which draws attention to my taking her mother 's place .
17 We must not do anything to discourage people from taking on that caring role .
18 They told her over and over again that she must not do it , but she could n't help it .
19 Then , curled up in bed that night , she told Fenna that she must not do it anymore , she must not wander off , he must not let her .
20 ‘ You must not do it , Jamie , we 'll be in trouble with Colonel James , I 've told all you boys a thousand times . ’
21 You must not do it yourself ?
22 ‘ You must not do it ! ’
23 Under Method B , it is possible to limit the proportionate change in the pool by a fraction , which must not exceed one half .
24 ‘ I thought ‘ You must be very calm , you must not antagonise your aggressor , just try to be calm and keep sensible , and always think what you are saying before you say it ’ , ’ said Lizzie , of Oxford , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister .
25 Any change must not make it easier for a defendant to escape conviction for murder in cases where there is a planned or revenge killing .
26 Dr Leslie Weatherhead wrote , in Prescription for Anxiety , ‘ Deadness of feeling , even if we think we do not love anybody , not even God , must not make us worry .
27 The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) .
28 She rested her head for a moment against his shoulder and then sat up straight , conscious that she must not ruffle her carefully coiffured hair .
29 This means that countries must now accept products complaint with their own standards or the EC standards , but must not specify which until 1996 , when the EC standard shall be used throughout .
30 I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime .
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