Example sentences of "they [modal v] not be [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it would be sacrilege if he gets the vacant No 4 shirt , they may not be allowed to do that anyway . |
| 2 | But , molly-coddled by the government for years , they may not be equipped to stand on their own two feet . |
| 3 | They must not be allowed to lose sight of the prime message . |
| 4 | These questions are worth asking , but they must not be allowed to detain us here . |
| 5 | This is not to say that functionalists would be in sympathy with Freud 's belief that certain unconscious mental processes are so anxiety-provoking that they must not be allowed to enter awareness . |
| 6 | But they must not be allowed to become bored with the whole thing . |
| 7 | They must not be allowed to train a new and superior élite , and free places in them ( when and where they are introduced ) should go not only to the cleverest but to those who need a boarding education . |
| 8 | As they stepped on to the landing he signalled her to go ahead while he hung back so they should not be seen arriving in the newsroom together . |
| 9 | You should be sure of why you are using quotations ; they should not be used to show off your reading or to give the impression of knowing more than you do . |
| 10 | They should not be left to suffer illness and misery because they ca n't afford to heat their homes properly . ’ |
| 11 | But if Marx 's arguments were valid in their historical context , they should not be allowed to block the development of concrete proposals which , although not acting as historical blueprints , could help to more accurately define , and hence mobilise support for , socialist objectives . |
| 12 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 13 | " They should not be allowed to arrange unchecked and uncontrolled the terms of peace and to decide alone the conditions which will follow it . " |
| 14 | Certainly they should not be allowed to fall back on supplementary schools as an alternative to mainstream provision . |
| 15 | If however the local officials in the state of origin have access to appropriate procedural guidance , there is no strong reason of principle why they should not be allowed to communicate directly with the Justice Ministry or other central authority of the state of destination . |
| 16 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 17 | It seems quite wrong , for example , that they should not be required to state explicitly the amount of damages which have been paid in settlement of the action . |
| 18 | The vendors ' first response to a request for warranties is likely to be that they should not be required to give any because the management knows far more about the day-to-day running of the company than they do . |
| 19 | In contrast , deliberate reformulations are designed to achieve particular contextual effects , and they should not be taken to indicate a failure to communicate any more than , for example , repetition . |
| 20 | In it Taylor defends ideas that Mill himself found too radical ; primarily , that women should have access to the same professions as men , and that they should not be forced to inhabit ‘ separate spheres ’ . |
| 21 | He says they should not be forced to abandon their education . |
| 22 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 23 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 24 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 25 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 26 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 27 | They could not be seen telling stories : it looked daft . |
| 28 | But they could not be compelled to do so . |
| 29 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 30 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |