Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | You must not open the gates tonight . |
| 8 | Of course , we must not exaggerate the value of doubt and forget its darker side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ We must not underestimate the challenge and the costs involved of winning new business in this field . ’ |
| 14 | I must not give the impression of being without sin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In January 1949 Walton Butterworth warned the South Korean minister that the ROK must not repeat the mistakes of the Kuomintang in China . |
| 17 | The file name must not contain a node name , device , directory , logical name or version number , eg : |
| 18 | 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 ] |
| 19 | Hence if we are to form a constitutive relation for the material of the rod it must not contain the dimensions . ) |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The cheque must not exceed the limit set by the banker 's card , i.e. £50 unless the management personally accept the responsibility of authorising cheques over this amount . |
| 22 | A bye-law made by a licensing board under this section must be intra vires , i. e. the scope of the bye-law must not exceed the power given by the section . |
| 23 | The total aid granted for investment ( except some property improvements and land improvements ) must not exceed the aid resulting from financing the investments with a 15 year loan at a 7% interest rate subsidy . |
| 24 | ( Strictly speaking , there is one further condition for the game to qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma : the average of the Temptation and the Sucker payoffs must not exceed the Reward . |
| 25 | Punishments , however , must not exceed the minimum that is necessary to deter — we would not , Beccaria again argues , will it otherwise in the social contract . |
| 26 | On the hearing of a debtor 's petition , the court must not make a bankruptcy order where the total of the debtor 's debts would be less than the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , the minimum value of the debtor 's assets would be equal to or more than the " minimum amount " , currently £2,000 , the debtor has not been adjudicated bankrupt nor entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement within the last five years and it would be appropriate to appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report ( s 273 ) . |
| 27 | The court must not make a bankruptcy order unless it is satisfied that the debt , or one of the debts , in respect of which the petition was presented has not been paid nor secured or compounded for , or is a debt which the debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay when it falls due ( s 271(1) ) . |
| 28 | The hon. and learned Gentleman must not make a speech that he might make if I were to call him . |
| 29 | Parents of allergic children have to walk a tightrope — on the one hand they need to warn their child about things to avoid , but on the other hand they must not make the child over-anxious . |
| 30 | The court must therefore be satisfied that the order will positively contribute to the child 's welfare and must not make an order unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |