Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 2 | The National Council advised the Bristol conference of the League of 1935 : We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into activities definitely condemned by the Labour Party which will jeopardize our affiliation to and influence in the Party . |
| 3 | The SNP must not allow itself to be bullied by Labour in the stramash over the Commons vote . |
| 4 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 5 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |
| 6 | New conveyancers should not allow themselves to be bullied by more senior members of the profession who have had years of experience . |
| 7 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 8 | She must n't allow herself to be swayed by emotion . |
| 9 | The claim that a class may or may not allow itself to be exploited is another case of Poulantzas ' belief that the course of the class struggle is not altogether determined by the structural constraints of a particular phase of capitalism . |
| 10 | A more relevant criticism is that manifesto promises may not address themselves to the country 's real problems . |
| 11 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 12 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 13 | Unfortunately , her husband could not reconcile himself to having married a commoner and even taught their sons to be disrespectful to her when they were young . |
| 14 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 15 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 16 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 17 | I knew lots of people had died , but could n't bring myself to … ’ |
| 18 | Could n't bring myself to . ’ |
| 19 | This type of guitar was something of a German speciality , as though the builders , while acknowledging the burgeoning ‘ beat boom ’ market of the time , could n't bring themselves to completely prostitute their art by simply cloning the famous electric guitars of America . |
| 20 | She could n't give herself to Ahmed and could n't keep herself for me , you understand . ’ |
| 21 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 22 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 23 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 24 | Both the alternative development possibilities suggested appear to be attractive , but you need n't restrict yourself to them alone . |
| 25 | He need n't force himself to be sociable , Robbie thought . |
| 26 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 27 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 28 | But this text clearly belongs to the period after Alexander , though I would not commit myself to a Maccabean date . |
| 29 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 30 | The government remained reluctant to recognize UNITA until it agreed to end its destabilization campaign , while UNITA would not commit itself to ending hostilities until its future political role was guaranteed . |