Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 2 | The National Council advised the Bristol conference of the League of 1935 : We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into activities definitely condemned by the Labour Party which will jeopardize our affiliation to and influence in the Party . |
| 3 | The SNP must not allow itself to be bullied by Labour in the stramash over the Commons vote . |
| 4 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 5 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 6 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |
| 7 | New conveyancers should not allow themselves to be bullied by more senior members of the profession who have had years of experience . |
| 8 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 9 | She must n't allow herself to be swayed by emotion . |
| 10 | Let him be Gazza — you should n't want him to be anyone else . |
| 11 | The claim that a class may or may not allow itself to be exploited is another case of Poulantzas ' belief that the course of the class struggle is not altogether determined by the structural constraints of a particular phase of capitalism . |
| 12 | We 're only meeting friends , they 'll not expect us to be sober . ’ |
| 13 | I could not expect her to be bridesmaid . |
| 14 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 15 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 16 | ‘ When my boyfriend tried to touch me , I could n't stand him to be near me . |
| 17 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 18 | Equally , she could n't expect them to be psychic and intuit when it was okay . |
| 19 | At this stage I could n't expect him to be on the bit , but nor did I want him slopping along . |
| 20 | You could n't expect him to be logical , I should 've learnt that by now . |
| 21 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 22 | If there were a check , one need not require it to be an infallible one ; the fact that we might always be wrong about how the original sensation was ( a sort of memory scepticism ) is not a part of the argument at all . |
| 23 | If Nicky Scott Wilson wanted to keep his life secret , that was fine by her ; but he need n't expect her to be a part of it , in that case . |
| 24 | He need n't force himself to be sociable , Robbie thought . |
| 25 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 26 | From across the kitchen he said , ‘ I do n't think anything I have painted this autumn is quite as good as this , but then , I would not expect it to be . |
| 27 | That being so , one would not expect there to be fully formulated justifications . |
| 28 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 29 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 30 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |