Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any change must not make it easier for a defendant to escape conviction for murder in cases where there is a planned or revenge killing . |
| 2 | The Minister should not give us that disingenuous stuff about new equity , which is not meant to assist with buying Scottish Bus Group companies . |
| 3 | ‘ That should not make you bitter . |
| 4 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 5 | If Christians can agree 25 December as the supposed date for an alleged birth it should not take them 2,000 years to agree a date for an alleged death . |
| 6 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 7 | Because of the existence of such prejudice among the early believers , it should not surprise us that prejudice will , and does , exist in churches today . |
| 8 | It should not surprise us that misery turns to protest when the temptation of the ballot box invites . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And you should not ask me that , either , ’ said Sally-Anne , head erect , carriage proud , refusing to be won over . |
| 10 | It may not make them popular , but it will usually make them right . |
| 11 | Conversely , the firm may use a non-conventional channel like mail order which requires minimal investment in salespeople , although the physical characteristics of the product may not make it suitable for mail order . |
| 12 | ‘ But he may not think it grand enough . ’ |
| 13 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 14 | The big potential drawback of a personal pension , particularly for an older person , is that it may not offer you such attractive benefits as your present pension arrangements . |
| 15 | Mr Menem 's show of leniency towards a few elderly officers may not keep them quiet for long . |
| 16 | Those who pin their hopes on highly specified , short range solutions may or may not get it right . |
| 17 | New Zealand , silver medal-winners last time , may not find it easy against the improving Finland . |
| 18 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 19 | For example , the general notion of a ‘ building ’ is clear , but a judge may not find it easy to decide whether a temporary wooden hut , or a telephone kiosk , or a wall , or a tent , is a ‘ building . ’ |
| 20 | For example , if you choose to write an essay on the novel A Very Quiet Street by the contemporary Glasgow author Frank Kuppner , you may not find it easy to get any critical work either on the book itself or on this writer ( since no books may have been written about him ) . |
| 21 | They may not find it , they may not find it impossible to change contracts but it will become increasingly harder for them to do so . |
| 22 | It may not catch you many , if any , more rabbits but it looks good . |
| 23 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 24 | But you know , let's not talk him all the time because I think some of our players gave good performances today . |
| 25 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 26 | A source might not tell us all we would like to know ; a document may sometimes be biased — but these sources are still the only direct evidence we have , and the historian has to learn to use them effectively . |
| 27 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 28 | I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny . |
| 29 | Wait a minute cos I might not get it right , tell me a big number |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll not build it all at once , but we 'll allow space for it . |