Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been quietly considering if we too should not break with philology as practised till now and its educational perspective . |
| 2 | Stevenson is also anxious that we should not dismiss with contempt the more completely non-rational aspects of ethical discussion in which we affect each other 's ethical attitudes by the use of emotive language or influence each other 's emotions in other ways which do not require the mediation of rationally based changes in belief . |
| 3 | ‘ The understanding is that the auctioneer should not part with possession of them ( the goods ) to the purchaser except against payment of the price ; or if the auctioneer should part with them without receiving payment , he is responsible to the vendor for the price … . |
| 4 | They do not on the whole deny a male bias in conventional English , but they pretend to object to change on purely linguistic grounds — for instance that one should not tamper with grammar , that nonsexist forms are unaesthetic or even , as a last resort , that willed changes in language destroy freedom of thought and usher in totalitarianism . |
| 5 | Such a ‘ rule ’ should not conflict with authority and precedent which require , essentially , only that the person selected be acceptable to the party in question . |
| 6 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 7 | ‘ Must n't interfere with y'work , of course , ’ he added . |
| 8 | ‘ No , we should n't play with money on a Sunday . |
| 9 | Nature intended us to be as we are , and we should n't tamper with reproduction . |
| 10 | Hospital may not cope with area 's growing population : councillor |
| 11 | Such articles may not start with art ; as Rudolf Arnheim said about his book , Art and Visual Perception , he applied principles of visual perception to examples taken from the arts . |
| 12 | This may not matter with mortality data , where it seems unlikely that there would be very rapid transformation in the main causes of death . |
| 13 | In addition , the hospital 's psychiatric unit could not cope with bed blocking : occupancy often reaches 90% in spring and autumn , leaving inadequate space for emergency admissions . |
| 14 | This was due to the impossibility of conveying such goods between the two cities at a time when the railways could not cope with grain supplies coming into Saratov . |
| 15 | Girl who dies ‘ could not cope with sex ’ |
| 16 | Admin Clerk burst into tears , could not cope with situation . |
| 17 | There was probably no subject , Wickham realized , that at least one person in the newsroom could not discuss with authority but it was a bit of time-saving luck that Shildon had investigated MacQuillan . |
| 18 | In particular , the area of the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , could not decrease with time . |
| 19 | In that case , the universe would already be in a state of complete disorder , so disorder could not increase with time . |
| 20 | A surrender to the farmers over the egg controversy , hesitancy in confronting the brewers , and some retreat in the face of the judges ' opposition to legal reform indicated that there were lobbies and vested interests which even the all-conquering Prime Minister could not challenge with impunity . |
| 21 | Counsel on both sides seem to have accepted that an Anton Piller order could have extra-territorial reach ; the challenge made for the defendant rested partly on an argument that an English court could not deal with title to or possession of foreign immovables ( rejected as there was an equity between the parties ) and partly on a plea of forum non conveniens ( rejected on the facts , and because reliance on an application in an alternative forum would cause a delay during which assets could be disposed of ) . |
| 22 | Rightly or wrongly I was convinced you could not deal with unemployment without a tariff . |
| 23 | He said he could n't cope with aggravation . |
| 24 | Why did everyone think she could n't cope with hurt ? |
| 25 | On our own , we could n't cope with life , with things in general . |
| 26 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 27 | ‘ They thought children could n't cope with ambiguity , ’ John says . |
| 28 | That made Agnes even madder , because she knew her friendly snub-nosed face could n't cope with anger . |
| 29 | The Sylvie who could n't contend with motherhood , with the loss of her youth . |
| 30 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |