Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 2 | You must not look for the book until you reach the shelf carrying its class number . |
| 3 | Therefore there was no reason why volenti should not succeed for the employer . |
| 4 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ We are aware of the local feeling and have come to the view that we should not fight for the additional land requirement , ’ Mr Walker said . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |
| 7 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 8 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 9 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing full well that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 10 | They may not qualify for the names ‘ colonisers ’ or ‘ pioneers ’ , but great numbers of people have gone abroad from the county during this century . |
| 11 | As Family Development Nurses , we are still working within a system which is based on uniform structures and procedures which may not allow for the flexibility of approach , or the necessary degree of autonomy which is needed , to be always relevant to the needs of each individual or family . |
| 12 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 14 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 15 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 16 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 17 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 18 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 19 | He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York . |
| 20 | it was held that the Food Controller could not charge for the licence . |
| 21 | Hall has a four-shot buffer after her round of 75 while Edmond , who could not play for the Essex ladies in county week due to a wrist injury , is also well-placed after a 77 . |
| 22 | This specific and complex test was required , the experts say , because the Cusiana rock is quite variable , a condition that could not allow for the application of routine technology to asses well productivity . |
| 23 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 24 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 25 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 26 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 27 | However , Willie was certain that this could not account for the strange noise , so he continued , only to find the noise started again even louder . |
| 28 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 29 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 30 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |