Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 2 | He meant , of course , that anything beautiful , anything worthwhile , should not just be left to experts — we should all be in there enjoying it , taking part in it . |
| 3 | Co-operation and co-ordination should not therefore be restricted to the library sector — it should reach out . |
| 4 | Paul counsels that believers should not knowingly be married to those who are not followers of Christ . |
| 5 | But the same rates of interest should not necessarily be paid to non-residents and residents alike . |
| 6 | News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers . |
| 7 | But it must n't just be left to the activists to recruit . |
| 8 | I should n't even be talking to you . |
| 9 | So I 'd tell people that I should n't really be listening to them , and they 'd get quite upset … |
| 10 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 11 | It thus came about that , during the process of a boy 's adjustment to public school , two very powerful and not very compatible needs — the need for power and the need for love — were grossly stimulated , in an environment where their satisfaction could not easily be assigned to the usual separate compartments of life . |
| 12 | Once the vegetational cover of the hard schists was destroyed they could not easily be restored to cultivation . |
| 13 | ( A suggestion made by Alasdair MacIntyre that emotivism is promising only as an account of the use of ethical words in a society lacking shared values could not reasonably be extended to the attitudinism I have described . ) |
| 14 | In its manifesto , the Ulster Unionist Party said : ‘ We can not accept as stable any system of governance which could not equally be applied to any other regional entity within the UK . ’ |
| 15 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 16 | As I said , Goreng had to shoot some after a desertion so large that it could not possibly be ascribed to the category of MIAS . |
| 17 | He was not certain of the exact meaning of the word , but he knew without doubt that it could not possibly be applied to him . |
| 18 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 19 | Any man who would do this is certainly not committed to her , could not possibly be committed to godliness , therefore the whole basis of their relationship is shattered . |
| 20 | These were groups in need of institutional care and whose need could not always be attributed to their own fault . |
| 21 | Research showed that both infant mortality rates and malnutrition tended to be higher among girls than boys , a fact which could not conceivably be ascribed to the occupation but reflected traditional attitudes that damaged the health of the community . |
| 22 | It was Lavandera who suggested that the concept of the linguistic variable could not usefully be applied to the analysis of syntactic variation because variants of so-called ‘ syntactic variables ’ were not semantically equivalent in the same way as phonological variables . |
| 23 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 24 | The products and services provided by these graduate entrepreneurs are diverse in nature and need not necessarily be related to their educational backgrounds or degree subjects . |
| 25 | The new symbols NT , USE need not necessarily be transferred to library catalogues where traditional entries can still be made . |
| 26 | It appears that the application need not necessarily be made to the judge or district judge by whom the judgment or order was made ( cf Ord 37 , r 1(2) ) . |
| 27 | The term ‘ conflict ’ need not necessarily be limited to ‘ a right old barney ’ . |
| 28 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 29 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
| 30 | Their receipt from the firm of business letters with updated letterheading would doubtless be convincing evidence of actual knowledge , sed quaere where the correspondence is of a wholly formal nature ( eg a compliments slip accompanying a cheque in settlement of a bill ) which would not ordinarily be expected to be read carefully by the recipient . |