Example sentences of "they [vb mod] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's all wrong , ’ said the woman , ‘ they ought not to be in white homes . |
| 2 | It could be argued that since these are indefensible when applied , as they are currently , to conventional criminals , they ought not to be extended to corporate criminals . |
| 3 | If they can , then the biological considerations are not going to show that they ought not to ; while , if they can not so diverge , then there is no question of ought . |
| 4 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 5 | They ought not to be doing , literally . |
| 6 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 7 | Okay as prices are cheaper , but you do have things like Coca Cola getting to those kind of things and everything else which you know where they might not to opera and it 's because it 's more popular and they know what they 're doing . |
| 8 | But they could not at this point publicly repudiate him . |
| 9 | Investors could generally assume , as they could not in 1982-84 , that most bank loans made to developers and speculators had been adequately secured and documented . |
| 10 | The main objective , if they could not in fact capture Balliol , was to frighten him , give him warning to keep away from Scotland in future , and show Dacre and the North of England generally that if they aided Edward Plantagenet , they were vulnerable to dire reprisals . |
| 11 | The country railways , of course , never made a profit ; they could not by their very nature . |
| 12 | In both cases the interviewers wanted to appoint him but they were told they could not by their authorities . |
| 13 | They 'd not of had them before Christmas . |
| 14 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 15 | They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer . |
| 16 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 17 | These programmes may fulfil the hidden agendas of some of their originators but they will not in their present forms fulfil the real educational needs of the future . |
| 18 | It is generally accepted ( p. 145 ) that ‘ hygiene ’ type variables such as pay and working conditions can , if they are inappropriately specified , depress morale and motivation but they will not in themselves result in very high levels of these parameters . |
| 19 | They will not in this way learn to control those impulses which lead them to transgress . |
| 20 | They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well . |
| 21 | In the face of Norwegian opposition , the Joint Committee was forced to conclude that the ‘ difficulties are so significant that they can not at present be solved by the participating countries ’ . |
| 22 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |
| 23 | But conservatives claim that this sort of argument leads to the destruction of the moral foundations on which the social order is built : ‘ men can not for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaningless in their individual lives , so they can not for long accept a society in which power , privilege , and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria ’ . |
| 24 | They can not of course do that , this letter described by the director of social services as a disgrace . |
| 25 | But although organic molecules are the essential components of modern living things , they can not in isolation be considered living . |
| 26 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 27 | On the other hand , local governments use their budgets directly to fix tax levels , the essential point being that they can not in law tax for a budget deficit . |
| 28 | They are not a substitute , they can not in any sense make decisions for you , nor can they guarantee your performance . |