Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 I must not give way to it , because it is so unlike me and quite causeless .
2 Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run .
3 One must not give way to despair .
4 Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter .
5 Even so , the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends , for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation .
6 IT IS shameful that some people are saying Britain should not give sanctuary to refugees from the civil war in Yugoslavia .
7 The fact that the plaintiff chose to run the risk should not give rise to volenti , as knowledge of the risk is not sufficient .
8 We should not grant recognition to the Baltic states or any other So Soviet Republics unless they guarantee human rights ?
9 Equally , the rules and practices of the SRO should not restrict competition to an extent which is greater than necessary for the protection of investors .
10 Does he further agree that , at this critical time of ordering , building and commissioning that submarine fleet , we should not pay attention to the recommendations of the two main Opposition parties , whose opinion appears to vary , not merely from day to day , but from hour to hour ?
11 If that can be done with improved efficiency with the whole range of services continuing to be carried out , there is no reason why the Secretary of State for Wales should not dive approval to such a scheme .
12 She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’
13 I have also accepted the advice of a number of organisations , including the TUC , that , for security reasons , union members should not have access to the names and addresses of other union members .
14 This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head .
15 For example , the government may or may not attach importance to local unemployment when industries with a heavy geographical concentration are allowed to go under all at once .
16 Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love .
17 Individuals may not have access to private transport to substitute for inadequate public provision ; they may not be able to obtain a lift when necessary and they may not possess a telephone or the resources to obtain a car or phone .
18 First , women may not have access to relatives who are able or willing to respond .
19 One of the significant benefits of using the medium of the free newspapers is that the information will get to those special needs groups ( women , ethnic , disabled ) who , for a variety of reasons , may not have access to other newspapers .
20 However , if it is thought that the joint tenancy might be severed ( and there might be good matrimonial or tax planning reasons for this ) it is preferable to include the enlargement of powers as in Precedent 34 for otherwise the trustees of the conveyance may not have power to mortgage or charge the property ( see Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 , s8 ) .
21 The absence of intermittent hormonal stimulation in men implies that a similar underlying genetic defect might not give rise to malignant disease until later in life .
22 There was , it seemed , no peculiar distinction , however trifling or minute , which might not give value to a volume , providing the indispensable quality of scarcity , or rare occurrence , was attached to it .
23 these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation .
24 ‘ With a very great number of credit grantors not being members of any trade association and others being members of more than one , such a system could not give rise to a fair method of raising a levy .
25 Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " .
26 Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself .
27 At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself .
28 Mr Vernon admitted that he could not do justice to all the fund raising efforts of the year , but would nonetheless like to congratulate the organisers of the four local appeals in Lincolnshire , Filey , the Mersey area and Derbyshire who all reached and surpassed their targets in 1990 .
29 The issue , an ongoing source of tension , had been aggravated by remarks in July by Demiral on the eve of the inauguration of the Ataturk dam on July 25 , to the effect that Iraq and Syria could not lay claim to the water Turkey drew from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers .
30 I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day .
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