Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 must not proceed for a private customer with any one packaged product if it is aware of another packaged product on the market which will meet the customer 's requirements better ; and
2 must not proceed for a private customer with a packaged product of , or arranged by , any person with whom the firm has a connection unless the firm believes on reasonable grounds that the product will meet the customer 's requirements better than any other packaged product on the market .
3 A firm which is a tied firm must take all reasonable steps to inform itself and others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available from the marketing group to which it belongs , and must not proceed with a packaged product for a private customer if it is aware of another packaged product from the marketing group 's product range which would meet the customer 's requirements better .
4 I am rather keen , and I 'm sure you are rather keen , that it should not end in a shabby way . ’
5 It should not lead to a restricted curriculum , and its use was set in the context of a range of other methods which ‘ use pupils ’ own talk , interests and writing as the starting point for further work' ( NCC 1989a : 33 ) .
6 Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday .
7 Preparation of sales benefits should not result in an inflexible sales approach .
8 [ T ] here is no reason why the law should not protect on a similar basis the enjoyment of other rights .
9 Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes .
10 Civil servants are paid according to criteria which should not apply in a creative profession .
11 Furthermore , the institution should be required to listen to representations from the parties as to why the presumption of the legislation should not apply in a particular case , and to evaluate these representations .
12 We have argued that such institutions should be public ( though not ruling out the possibility of a role , even an important role , for private actions , as an additional deterrent to abuses of market power ) ; that there should be a single investigating institution with powers to identify and to investigate cases , and to propose remedies , within a clearly stated framework of rules and guidelines ; that firms should be given an opportunity to make representations as to why the competition policy presumptions should not apply in a particular case ; and that there should be a competition tribunal with the task of reviewing and monitoring the recommendations of the competition policy institution .
13 The stent covered the entire stricture in each case and , as only the distal intrapancreatic portion of the CBD was stented with this unremovable material , it should not interfere with a possible future hepaticojejunostomy or choledocoduodenostomy .
14 We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ .
15 Local authorities should not indulge in a dog-eat-dog attitude .
16 In his electoral speeches , Boris Yeltsin had emphasised that the president of Russia should not belong to a political party .
17 The decision not to proceed with the plant follows a court ruling that the plans contravened an EC directive and that construction should not proceed without an environmental impact assessment .
18 Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people .
19 Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' .
20 She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park .
21 ‘ A young chap like that should n't play on an older woman 's susceptibilities . ’
22 He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more .
23 A degree in your fifties , sixties and seventies may not lead to a new career , but it will certainly result in a growing confidence and greater fulfilment .
24 Induced trade deficits caused by such structural change may not result in an appropriate exchange rate adjustment .
25 In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain .
26 Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife .
27 The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so .
28 You may not react to a casual slight about colonial manners , but I do .
29 He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time .
30 At the same time , a new Contributions Unit , which may or may not develop into a full-blown agency , will be spun out of the existing DSS central capacity in Longbenton , Newcastle ( with people stationed in every benefit office in the land and a total staff of 7,000 ) .
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