Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Members of the Cabinet must not be members of the National Assembly .
2 There must not be space for the ferret to get around the outside of the cage and remain free .
3 The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’
4 ‘ There must not be attitudes of victory or defeat , but rather a deep sensitivity . ’
5 Duke Michael must not be King .
6 Made up of the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee , the Leader of the House of Commons and seven other members of the House ( who must not be ministers ) , its purpose is to oversee the National Audit Office , in approving the annual budget and appointing the auditor for the Office 's own accounts .
7 Fields claimed that he was refusing to pay on principle , because the tax was unjust ; Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , said that he had " absolutely no sympathy " with Fields , and that " law makers must not be law breakers " .
8 Indeed , perhaps the most sensible thing that that model of of consistency , Ki Neil Kinnock , has said this year was , law makers must not must not be law breakers .
9 First and foremost , it must not be voluntarist , and must therefore eschew any hint of historicism .
10 Good resolution : I must not be fey .
11 For this tax timing option for shares to be valuable , the marginal tax payer must not be tax exempt ( e.g. not be a pension fund ) , and must be capable of holding the shares into the next tax period ( e.g. not be an arbitrageur or market maker ) .
12 They must not be accommodation bills , where no underlying transaction exists , where the bill has been accepted so that it can be discounted for capital purposes .
13 Steps should be taken to eliminate conflicts of interest as soon as they arise and fee-sharing with non-lawyers should not be allowedamendment being required here to permit MDPs .
14 I do not wish to argue that stabbing the patient should not be homicide .
15 I can not understand why , as a general rule , if intercourse be an assault , it should not be rape . ’
16 The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’
17 In its Working Paper , a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee took the view that , where a woman has knowingly consented to the defendant 's putting his penis into her vagina , this should not be rape .
18 The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators .
19 Modern medical technology suggests that Mr Souness 's operation should not be life threatening but his predicament indicates he has become the latest to succumb to the strain of football management .
20 Spitting on people should not be part of the game .
21 And I object to it , as I consider that O S fields seven three six five and six eight six two with the land extending westwards to the A Nineteen , should not be part of the Skelton inset area .
22 The Royal Commission on Legal Services concluded that this sort of work should not be part of the responsibilities of the citizens ' law centres that were proposed .
23 Also the meeting was not a year ago as your report states , but only this month and we do n't say that Thornaby should not be part of Stockton borough .
24 The passport to the old age pension should not be necessity , but British parentage .
25 I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone .
26 Meals should not be interrogations .
27 That does not mean that people who have recognition as a high priority should not be managers .
28 Give your fish a close visual inspection : flukes should not be problem at this time of year , but you may have introduced anchor worm ( Lernaea ) or fish lice ( Argulus ) with new stock … no dealer worth his salt would sell infested fish without first having dealt with these parasites , but it happens .
29 The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) .
30 Due to a number of circumstances Amy feels she should not be treasurer for nineteen ninety one .
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