Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 2 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 3 | The first is whether in construing ambiguous or obscure statutory provisions your Lordships should relax the historic rule that the courts must not look at the Parliamentary history of legislation or Hansard for the purpose of construing such legislation . |
| 4 | Because games may vary slightly in length you may not start at the exact time given . |
| 5 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 6 | 160 , and to us in this court , he imagined that the judges must have assumed jurisdiction by virtue of their inherent power to determine who may and who may not plead at the Bar before them . |
| 7 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 8 | Fat on a diet of ‘ Robocop ’ and ‘ Rambo ’ , Latin Americans may not jump at the chance to see them . |
| 9 | We 've said well let's not look at the parish organizations , specifically , because those are covering areas that we do n't need to look at . |
| 10 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 11 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 12 | The CNAA , he explained , would take pressure off the University of London , and if other universities were not prepared to enter the field of external degrees ‘ they could not complain at the creation of the new body ’ . |
| 13 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 14 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 15 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 16 | The outside world could not guess at the disturbing cross-currents . |
| 17 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 18 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 19 | As a result , it seems clear that the prosecutor need not establish at the outset that such was the defendant 's intention or awareness . |
| 20 | KPMG would not comment at the recent agm . |
| 21 | He would not arrive at the door . |
| 22 | I am interested to see that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) would not balk at the prospect of having to sort out those knotty problems . |
| 23 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 24 | Dr Johnson would not look at the bones . |
| 25 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 26 | But for parents the cost will not stop at the price of a movie ticket . |
| 27 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 28 | He will not talk at the committee unless he has a genuine contribution to make to the discussion . |
| 29 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 30 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |