Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ .
2 But we must not confound motive with consideration .
3 Action : Modules of type FOREIGN must not have headers with versions earlier than 2.2 .
4 ‘ You should not make friends with an elephant keeper , ’ he had said , ‘ unless you first have room to entertain an elephant . ’
5 The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so .
6 While it is not possible to be completely up to date , the user should not buy models with in-built obsolescence .
7 They were concerned that the boys should not lose touch with their language and culture .
8 There is no constitutional or legal reason why Charles should not become king with an estranged wife .
9 Levitt concludes that the Italian 's success demonstrates his belief that you should not provide consumers with what they say they want , because their behaviour demonstrates that they will take other features if the product is priced and promoted correctly .
10 A club servant might be taking Moscow gold so perhaps one should not share secrets with them and so might another club member — but since he is likely to be a government official as well you already have a far bigger problem than just his being a member of your club .
11 He also welcomed the publication of a leaflet that would heighten patient awareness but warned that the Department of Health should not discourage callers with genuine need .
12 Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable .
13 If it has , do you worry about what deal it is , as long as these three men are released , or do you say we should n't do deals with people like Saddam ?
14 I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ?
15 ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’
16 Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan .
17 You may not run LIFESPAN with an older version of the FMS drivers than is shipped with LIFESPAN .
18 Similarly contracting-out may not provide authorities with greater flexibility if they are tied to long-term arrangements which are difficult to renegotiate .
19 The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her .
20 The group discussions ( Appendix II ) , which concentrated on people who it has been suggested might face difficulty getting credit because their backgrounds might not find favour with lenders , again showed very little sign that even ‘ problem ’ customers are often refused credit which they try to get .
21 Morgenthau could not rest content with defining power in a way consistent with the rest of his theory , because the theory needed anchoring by means of an objective definition of its key concepts .
22 And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later .
23 The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up .
24 Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons .
25 Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments .
26 Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns .
27 Elizabeth knew that George was right : she could not take chances with this pregnancy .
28 Her father had a chronic heart condition as a result of which Pamela had come to feel that she could not discuss problems with him .
29 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 ’ .
30 You could n't do business with — take over — an organization unless it was private enterprise .
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