Example sentences of "[modal v] not be [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 2 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 3 | Such protection must not be excessive if it is not to infringe Article 85 . |
| 4 | The idea was that the distinction should not be apparent when it came to examining human activities and social relationships in actual urban areas . |
| 5 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
| 6 | Should n't be surprised if it drives me straight into the arms of the recruiting officer . |
| 7 | But in the evening , under the dark , the gulleys ceased to drip , the pudding took a crust , and everyone was saying , " Should n't be surprised if it snowed again . " |
| 8 | That may not be real but it was certainly my perception and it is the perception that counts . |
| 9 | Where the rivers have flowed transverse to the structure rias formed in them will have a much more irregular plan : the main arm of the ria may not be straight and it may possess branches developed along weaker beds followed by the courses of previous subsequent streams . |
| 10 | What Terri Hooley , Dave Sinton and Johnny Hero have discovered may not be new but it 's potentially revolutionary . |
| 11 | It may not be perfect but it 's 90% more perfect than no ‘ cat ’ at all . |
| 12 | The present system may not be perfect but it has worked pretty well and would be capable of improvement and adjustment without the need to go back to the drawing board . ’ |
| 13 | Imaginative and incalculable youth , which clamours for the moon and may not be content till it has damaged most of the street lamps . ’ |
| 14 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 15 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 16 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 17 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 18 | Defamatory comment may not be actionable if it refers to people by class rather than by name . |
| 19 | It might not be complete but it 'll certainly give us some of them . |
| 20 | If the explanation was inadequate , the security might not be enforceable but it would not follow that liability in damages would attach ( post , p. 621E–G ) . |
| 21 | If the explanation was inadequate , the security might not be enforceable but it would not follow that liability in damages would attach . |
| 22 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 23 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 24 | Peres , then Finance Minister , announced that the IS500,000,000 budgeted for the settlement of Soviet Jews might not be adequate as it was based on an estimate of 40,000 new arrivals , whereas the Ministry of Immigration had estimated that up to 100,000 immigrants might arrive in 1990 . |
| 25 | Keeping the paperwork straight might not be glamorous but it was eighty per cent of the battle as he well knew , and he made certain his staff did too . |
| 26 | It might not be important but it would be helpful to have you there when he talks to his parents . |
| 27 | That is to say , a system could not be cognisant unless it appreciated how intentional changes in its perceptions were constrained by reality . |
| 28 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 29 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 30 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |