Example sentences of "what you [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the telephone it is easier ( though not necessarily easy ) to be firm , to say what you might not have the courage to say face-to-face . |
| 2 | It 's not only the developing countries that are dependent upon agricultural exports , New Zealand , Australia , Argentina , other what you might not call developing countries , are also erm , reliant upon , is reliant upon agricultural trade . |
| 3 | What you may not expect however is that at Saab , although we build things to last , we do n't expect them to last indefinitely . |
| 4 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 5 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 6 | To see what you can not hear , particularly consonant sounds , improves speech reception wonderfully . |
| 7 | You ca n't hate what you can not touch , I ca n't even feel what most people think of as despair . |
| 8 | ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow . |
| 9 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 10 | What you are not at liberty to do and what you will not do is storm around , losing your temper in my home . |
| 11 | What you will not have there , unless you take some of them along , are work and friends . |
| 12 | What you will not find , however , is that every individual Broca 's patient is lower on all six measures ( see , e.g. Berndt , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |
| 14 | But what you must not do ( and could conceivably lay yourself open to legal proceedings by doing ) is to quote exactly and at some length . |
| 15 | What you should not do at this stage is to listen to differing advice on how to do precise round loops . |