Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [be] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |
| 2 | What such issues must not do is clog up the wheels : travelling communications must have clarity and cohesion . |
| 3 | But one thing I shall not do is belittle the wonder of the living " watches " that so inspired Paley . |
| 4 | But the one thing I 'm sure Roxburgh will not do is panic . |
| 5 | The only thing you will not do is make me worry . ’ |
| 6 | What you are not at liberty to do and what you will not do is storm around , losing your temper in my home . |
| 7 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 8 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 9 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 10 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 11 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 12 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 13 | What a pleasant manner can not do is bridge the social gap , not in class but in age . |
| 14 | What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life . |
| 15 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 16 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 17 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |