Example sentences of "you [modal v] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excuse me , Lord , but parts of your planet are poisoned , although you may not yet have discovered that fact for yourselves . |
| 2 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 3 | You may not even think there is a problem at all since the words " greatest " and " largest " are synonymous in the English language . |
| 4 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |
| 5 | ‘ His phone calls to you may not even have been made from Geneva . ’ |
| 6 | You may not even like the King , but he wears the Crown of the Confessor . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son Michael , whom you may not even remember , the fair one with the glasses . |
| 8 | You may not even know you have had it . |
| 9 | You may not even know you have had it . |
| 10 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 11 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
| 12 | Even if you can drive you may not always have or have use of a car , but you will always need to reach the shops , go to the bank , to the doctor 's , and so on . |
| 13 | Doctor Penny but he said you may not always get her , you probably get or |
| 14 | You may not initially notice the effect of having a suspended CLI command file . |
| 15 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 16 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 17 | You must n't just sit there and do it love . |
| 18 | So it 's it 's vital that you get this exercise right and it , and you must n't just think of it as part of the study of History of Language , it 's not , it 's , it 's a er a definite part of your course . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't stop it now , Seb — and you must n't even try . |
| 20 | But besides that there 's a lot of other influences that come into it , and you must n't ever forget that it 's a song you 're playing — to me , that has absolutely everything to do with what notes you 're playing . |
| 21 | You must n't ever try to talk to me about her or I 'll leave the home . ’ |
| 22 | Minton imparted a sense of urgency to his students , advising them : ‘ You must n't ever turn down a commission . |
| 23 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |
| 24 | This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise : to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors . |
| 25 | I saw that you must not only address the real needs of people but need to be genuinely open to new approaches and styles of work if you are ever going to make the rhetoric of involving communities in the planning and assessment of programmes a reality , or ensure active participation in health sector organizations . |
| 26 | Make your title search four or five days or a week before completion ( five days if you think there may be a pending registration ) , to enable you to complete well within the period of priority that your search gives you — but remember that to gain full protection you must not only complete the purchase within that period , as with unregistered title , but must also within the same period lodge your application to register the transfer or mortgage . |
| 27 | The certificate of search conveniently gives both the date at which the search was made , and the date on which the period of priority will expire — and note , again , that to have the protection of that priority you must not only complete your purchase or mortgage , but also lodge the application to register the transaction ( LR form A4 or A5 ) within the priority period — hence the virtue of the procedure for effecting registration when there is unavoidable delay mentioned above . |
| 28 | But as a manager you must not only understand the appraisal scheme but also adapt it to your own needs . |
| 29 | You must not subsequently display or offer it for sale as your own work ! |
| 30 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |