Example sentences of "that [modal v] not be [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 2 | In attempting to answer this question , I was tempted to follow the Economist and define services as : ‘ anything sold in trade that could not be dropped on your foot ’ . |
| 3 | Sometimes the court will assess damages on the basis of the " wasted capital expenditure " ( ie that part of the expenditure that would not be recovered on a resale in the open market ) . |
| 4 | With an irony that will not be lost on the hosts , the event was staged in Toronto , the home town of Ben Johnson . |
| 5 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 6 | There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway . |
| 7 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |