Example sentences of "[modal v] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
| 2 | That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’ |
| 3 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 4 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 5 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 6 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 7 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 8 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 9 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 10 | Critical of the US deployment , the Soviet Union would not for the time being join an international force , but would consider how to respond if the UN Security Council decided on military action . |
| 11 | Gentlemen , I would not for the world be judge in a cause in which I am one party among three . |
| 12 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 13 | I would not for the world keep him from his rest . |
| 14 | If your good lady mother is indisposed , I would not for the world — ’ |
| 15 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 16 | Those items would not in the event have been proceeded against , because prosecuting authorities would fear a jury acquittal . |
| 17 | It would not in the future as a result of that subsequent building . |
| 18 | 11.1 During the continuance of this Agreement the Proprietor shall not without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion abridgement or revision of the Work or of any part of it or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |
| 19 | 11.1 During the continuance of this Agreement the Company shall not without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion abridgement or revision of the Work or of any part of it or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |
| 20 | 9.6 Rights easements etc The [ operation of the Law of Property Act 1925 Section 62 shall be excluded from this Lease and the only rights granted to the Tenant are those expressly set out in this Lease [ and such further ancillary rights that arise under the general law or by necessary implication ] and the Tenant shall not by virtue of this Lease be deemed to have acquired or be entitled to and the ] Tenant shall not during the Term acquire or become entitled by any means whatever to any easement from or over or affecting any other land or Premises now or at any time after the date of this Lease belonging to the Landlord and not comprised in this Lease Section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 provides that a lease is deemed to include , in the absence of any contrary intention , all easements , rights and advantages appertaining or reputed to appertain to the premises at the time of the lease . |
| 21 | Existing claims against the unit shall not by the process of conversion automatically become due . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 24 | We will not for the moment consider the suitability of the procedures for bringing complaints of breach of duty to court , though the existence of well-informed plaintiffs with standing and motivation to sue is clearly an essential part of any system of control that is ultimately dependent on judicial sanctions . |
| 25 | 3.1 The Distributor agrees that it will not during the period of this Agreement and after termination ( for whatever reason ) seek to register in the Territory or anywhere in the world the Trade Mark ‘ Oxford ’ or any other trade mark or trade name being used and owned by the Publisher |
| 26 | That we will not during the period of 45 consecutive days immediately following the date of this letter enter into discussions with any other person relating to the disposal of our respective interest in the Shares unless you withdraw from negotiations for such purchase or unreasonably delay such negotiations ; and |
| 27 | But he will not in the end tolerate injustice and unfair treatment on either side . |
| 28 | To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself . |
| 29 | However , X can not without the seller 's consent assign his burdens under the contract ( i.e. the obligation to pay ) . |
| 30 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |