Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They form the ultimate distillation , but must not form the only aspect of your studies ; the skeleton must be clothed , and study must be pursued into all the ramifications of the life 's work to which your books and papers direct you . |
| 2 | Whatever the difficulties involved in applying Halliday 's model of thematic analysis to a given language , and irrespective of whether it is possible to reproduce the thematic patterning of the source text on a given occasion , one thing is certain : translators must not underestimate the cumulative effect of thematic choices on the way we interpret text . |
| 3 | With or without the complicity of the government statutory services are performing a very limited role , However , we must not underestimate the potential role of services as it seems highly likely that propensity of the informal sector is enhanced rather than diminished by the support of statutory agencies . |
| 4 | The second important point is that we must not treat the institutional population as a single group . |
| 5 | And that 's where you start to get your problems irrespective of whether your appliances are correctly fused you must make sure they are correctly fused but you must not exceed the thirteen amp otherwise you 've had it . |
| 6 | Any benefit enjoyed by the donor or a ‘ connected person ’ as a consequence of making a gift under Gift Aid must not exceed the lower of £250 or 2½% of the value of the gift . |
| 7 | A candidate 's election expenses must not exceed the maximum permitted amount , and he and , where appropriate , his election agent must make a return of them and declaration in the prescribed form within due time , otherwise his membership of the council will be in jeopardy . |
| 8 | I must not make the same mistake this time . |
| 9 | We must not make the same mistake again . |
| 10 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 11 | She must not forget the other reason why she had wished to find work here , and exile from her old life was not the main one for her presence in Vetch Street . |
| 12 | Colleagues , we must not forget the low paid and the part-time workers , the majority of whom are women . |
| 13 | But we must not forget the great flysch troughs which were developed in Alpine Europe through much of Cretaceous time and which in many cases continued on into the Tertiary . |
| 14 | He must not forget the small things of life , he concluded , they kept you sane . |
| 15 | No one has advanced our studies so far in this direction , although one must not forget the valuable work of M. R. Hull on the Colchester industry ( 1963 ) . |
| 16 | Although we must not forget the sizeable minority who are caught in a poverty trap , during recent years wages and salaries have risen overall more than the cost of living , and educational opportunities have widened . |
| 17 | Of course one must put a lot of effort into marginal seats , but in the long term you must not forget the safe ones too . |
| 18 | Also the councillors must not want the local fishermen to fish at Witton at a reasonable price compared to other local fishing areas . |
| 19 | As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months . |
| 20 | We must not leave the eighteenth century without mention of the great typefounder and printer of Birmingham , John Baskerville ( 1706–75 ) , who not only designed the famous type that bears his name but greatly improved the general standard of English printing and gave us , in 1763 , one of the most splendid editions of the Bible . |
| 21 | ‘ You must not let the strong winds frighten you , my dear . |
| 22 | We must not let the public pessimism of a few destroy the optimism of many . |
| 23 | The fact that many syllabuses and teachers ' books are full of relevant and challenging content and that in every country schools can be found where interesting and exciting work is in progress , must not obscure the central problem . |
| 24 | This is an evolutionary process and , while we must not pre-empt the various options which still remain for AEA 's future , neither must we lose our momentum and fail to make the progress we know is needed . |
| 25 | Bush was more cautious about such a possibility , but accepted her view that the UK must not become the only European NATO member to provide bases for air-launched nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | For if a particular form of social life is to be maintained , the practices of a society must not undermine the legitimating scheme embodied in the dominant instance . |
| 27 | What is certain is that the plaintiff 's solicitor must not overlook the provisional damages machinery when advising a client whose medical prognosis is guarded or unclear . |
| 28 | We must not dismiss the occasional and rare events as wild speculation ; statistically they must occur sooner or later , just as sooner or later that chimpanzee will type Hamlet . |
| 29 | ‘ But , ’ said PA president Sir Roger Elliott , ‘ we must not dismiss the electronic revolution . |
| 30 | To identify English as peculiarly problematical should not weaken the general defence of humane values in education , and may in the longer run help to strengthen them . |