Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no restriction on age , but nominees must not hold or have held professorships in the British Isles . |
| 2 | ( 11 ) The buyer must not acquire or dispose of shares ( or rights over shares ) in the target during the tender offer period other than pursuant to the tender offer . |
| 3 | They must not underspend or overspend , and must regularize the volume of books received so that the processing departments have an even flow of work throughout the year . |
| 4 | You must not smoke nor drink nor chew |
| 5 | ‘ The fact that there is a piece of legal documentation saying I must not molest or attack my ex-wife or her family is a slur on my name and gives the impression that I am a violent person . |
| 6 | They may feel that there are certain rights which citizens have and which the legislature or the executive must not invade or remove . |
| 7 | He must not oppress or surrender him . ’ |
| 8 | He must not oppress or surrender him . ’ |
| 9 | The doctor told him he must not walk or move his arm , and to speak only when it was necessary . |
| 10 | Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver . |
| 11 | She must not let that happen again , she must not , and with Dr Neil looking at her so sharply — and why was that ? — she was just able to turn her thoughts away from the unthinkable into whose pit she had just fallen . |
| 12 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 13 | What it says is you must not cross or straddle the line . |
| 14 | road and the line nearer to you is solid , you must not cross or straddle it , except when you need to get in and out of the premises on side road . |
| 15 | Strangers because of their clean clothes they must not tear or get dirty . |
| 16 | " An ambassador " , wrote an anonymous author of the early seventeenth century , " must not permit or allow anyone to challenge or in any other way offend the honour of his Prince on any subject at all " , while more than sixty years later Wicquefort could still assume that ceremonial niceties must be an essential preoccupation of any diplomat . |
| 17 | But what of the mini-commandments : Thou shalt not sit and watch television all evening ; Thou shalt not have a lie-in on Sunday morning ? |
| 18 | THOU SHALT NOT BET OR READ THY STARS |
| 19 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 20 | Licensees of software should not assign or transfer their rights if the licence agreement prohibits this . |
| 21 | The councillor should not visit or inspect any of the buildings or works of the local authority without first obtaining the approval of the council or the appropriate committee . |
| 22 | He should not oppress or surrender him . ’ |
| 23 | And we should not oppress or surrender each other . |
| 24 | While difficulties in calculating harm may impede the application of the ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle , the regulation of insider dealing should not stand or fall on the fact that proof of harm is difficult to acquire . |
| 25 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |
| 26 | While applying this pressure , the horse should not move or flinch away . |
| 27 | It should not repress or propel the citizenship away from political life but be ‘ informed by an entire people to the point where the intellectual , emotional , and moral capacities have reached their full potential and they are joined freely and actively in a genuine community ’ . |
| 28 | So if you programme for something which fails to materialise , then you should not blame or punish yourself , or decide it was not meant to be . |
| 29 | A man should be so proud of virility that he should not squander or debase it . |
| 30 | Iorwerth had three bowmen with him in the rear , to ensure that once the party entered the wood they should not turn and leave it again . |