Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We must not now add to the burden facing the medical staff and the Bland family by taking part in emotional or noisy demonstrations ’ .
2 In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists .
3 A solicitor must not only disclose to you any commission over £10 that he or she receives but must also account to you for it unless you have agreed that he or she should keep it .
4 But you should not simply stick to subjects in which you did well at school .
5 The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech .
6 Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand .
7 At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped .
8 And the only way round that situation , that may not even amount to crime when they 're put in fear , it may amount to yobbos on the pavement , or people er , cycling on the pavement or just being their usual threatening loutish selves .
9 It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria .
10 Livestock can appear to become split between two or more pieces of glass and while this may not initially seem to be a problem , it can become very irritating when you have to keep altering your viewing position to see your fish and other livestock in their entirety .
11 This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter .
12 Tables 14.6 and 14.7 suggest that increased capital intensity within the UK may not necessarily lead to proportionate increases in output .
13 Each test sentence used is therefore a valid member of the English language ( although it may not necessarily conform to prescriptive syntactic rules ) .
14 While a failure to adhere to the provisions of this Code by an individual registrant may not necessarily amount to negligence or a breach of an implied contractual term by that registrant , such a failure may evidence an infringement of the Council 's Rules of Conduct which could lead to disciplinary proceedings .
15 In discussing the various types of eruption that are generally recognized , it was emphasized that labels such as ‘ Strombolian ’ or ‘ Plinian ’ should only be applied to recognizable phases of an eruption ; they may not necessarily apply to the whole thing .
16 The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance
17 If you , the reader , are not of a scientific bent , then they may not much appeal to you and you may wish to gloss over them .
18 First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method .
19 In time there is no reason why some areas might not even aspire to the status of nature reserve .
20 But knowledge of the English burnings was widespread , and Scottish Protestants could not be sure that something similar might not now happen to them .
21 ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’
22 It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers .
23 Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film .
24 It was clear that he and Sarah could not easily talk to each other about sexual issues .
25 ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money .
26 ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money'
27 A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs .
28 He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’
29 Herod , who reigned over Palestine at the time , could not even claim to be a Jew by birth .
30 It was argued that having accepted these rights , member States could not subsequently claim to be third parties with respect to any obligations of such a treaty .
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