Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the trust must not normally invest more than 5 per cent of its portfolio in any one company ; |
| 2 | She must not only dress modestly , but behave modestly as well . |
| 3 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 4 | His wife must not only train up her children and maids in fear of God but attend to the wounds and sores of parishioners with her own hands . |
| 5 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |
| 6 | While the head was not " unduly influential " in the proceedings of the library committee , he had : wanted from the beginning that the grant should not simply bump up one particular subject area … |
| 7 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 8 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that it is impossible to itemise every circumstance that amounts to a breach of natural justice , while making it clear that , for example , a manager should not normally act both as ‘ witness and judge ’ in the procedure leading to a decision to dismiss . |
| 9 | Of great methodological importance is the principle of accountability , which in essence states that analysts should not selectively pick out from a text those variants of a variable which tend to confirm their argument , while ignoring others which do not . |
| 10 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up . |
| 11 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 12 | We should not really expect otherwise . |
| 13 | You must n't just sit there and do it love . |
| 14 | I think that 's right so , we we must n't even start even thinking about closing beds at the moment . |
| 15 | Minton imparted a sense of urgency to his students , advising them : ‘ You must n't ever turn down a commission . |
| 16 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 17 | You should n't just bugger off , you know , it 's not right . |
| 18 | But although we ca n't comprehend these levels of improbability in our minds , we should n't just run away from them in terror . |
| 19 | From an ‘ Ideas ’ book , one should n't perhaps expect much in the way of detailed costings of large schemes , but the lack of any attempt to cost even some of the individual measures lent the whole exercise an air of unreality . |
| 20 | But I do n't see any reason why we should n't ever get back to where , to the last quarter , if you 're excluding December , of ninety two . |
| 21 | So I do n't know I just think it 's an extra little booking that we should n't really turn down cos it 's money we would n't normally get . |
| 22 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 23 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 24 | such as f er for example a word processor clerk or may not saying , may not necessarily need so much training as |
| 25 | Identify UP projects that will end as of 1993–94 and any planned projects which may not now go ahead . |
| 26 | Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions , but using an entirely different legal framework . |
| 27 | They may not then pass on your details to any third party . |
| 28 | Anxieties which are currently felt most acutely by those living near destruction plants themselves may not always remain so localised . |
| 29 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly regulation of industry has the potential power to improve social welfare and to say we should abandon it because it may not always do so is nihilistic . |