Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If you 're to do any service to Harry , you must not appear in this .
2 Partners must not engage in any form of enterprise which is in competition with the partnership .
3 But one simply must not think about this ; at any rate , I am enjoying myself while it lasts .
4 In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer .
5 We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’
6 ‘ Mrs Hampton , you really must not laugh at these dark mysteries .
7 They must not go at all .
8 As mentioned earlier , the needs of the patient are always of prime importance in nursing care , and teaching must not interfere with this care .
9 " You must not worry about these laws , " they said .
10 We must not prejudice in any way what that Committee is going to do about this matter .
11 Nay , I must not dwell on that now — I must put her from my mind .
12 While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness .
13 If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger .
14 well I , I anticipated that the management charges would rise over and above inflation and I suggested we should , should not continue with that statement
15 In testimony before a court that will eventually rule on whether or not paintings from the Barnes Collection will go on tour for the first time , a conservator argued that several of the Barnes masterpieces should not tour under any circumstances .
16 However , it might be thought that where sado-masochism takes place between adult consenting parties and the injury sustained is not serious , the law should not intervene at all .
17 What you should not do at this stage is to listen to differing advice on how to do precise round loops .
18 I should not , she thought , really should not feel like this .
19 It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure .
20 There is no reason why a similar notional sum should not attach to any dependent person , including children , enabling payments to be made to whoever looks after them , whether at home or in some privately or publicly organised communal arrangement .
21 However , this should not lead to any particular problem , and it can be dealt with as a normal cable break .
22 Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties .
23 What is more , they are planted at high density — equivalent to about 20 on an average sized modern suburban building plot — and sometimes in places where trees should not grow at all .
24 But we should not conclude from this that they are therefore intrinsically objectionable and unworkable .
25 Voice transmissions are frequently relayed on the VOR frequencies ; you should not rely on these transmissions to identify a VOR station , because they are often simultaneously relayed on other VOR 's .
26 He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged .
27 It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany .
28 They would mostly agree with the list of " helpful " features in Table 4.1 , on page 38 , and acknowledge that the confessional approach should not engage in those in the righthand column .
29 And I think , Mr. Williams , you of all men should not engage in this affair against your friend and patron .
30 You should not smoke at all unless the interviewer positively invites you to do so .
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