Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These restrictions apply not only to the photographing of sacred objects but also , for example , to the recording of songs ; many songs are exclusive to men or women , and must not be played to mixed audiences . |
| 2 | This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that . |
| 3 | The additional attraction of moving to a central control , for some , is that it has often been argued , and increasingly so over the past 20 years , that debt charges do not measure ‘ cost of service ’ and should not be charged to detailed revenue accounts anyway . |
| 4 | Electrophysiological assessment should not be limited to programmed ventricular stimulation but should include a comprehensive evaluation of sinus node , AV node , and His-Purkinje function . |
| 5 | The Cork Committee considered that section 245 should not be extended to fixed charges since the charge would relate to the company 's existing assets whereas the floating charge could cover future assets . |
| 6 | We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) . |
| 7 | An LGB circular of 1871 proclaimed that out-door relief should not be given to single women unless they proved their inability to find other employment by performing a daily labour task , officially termed a ‘ labour test ’ , such as cleaning , in the workhouse , returning home at night . |
| 8 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 9 | Should not be given to non-ventilated babies |
| 10 | The batteries should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold temperatures , or exposed to moisture . |
| 11 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 12 | Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it . |
| 13 | Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received . |
| 14 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 15 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 16 | Criticism and debate are to be welcomed , however , and should not be confined to academic circles . |
| 17 | Use of oral history , for instance , should not be restricted to Key Stage 1 . |
| 18 | … selection should not be left to individual librarians to be based on ‘ the mood of the speaker ’ , and this is not happening in authorities that are recognising the need for properly thought-out selection policies based on the political policies of the local authority , together with an analysis of the local community , in the context of wider statutory provision across the authority . |
| 19 | The obese diabetic ( Ideal body weight > 120 per cent : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company , 1959 ) must be encouraged to lose weight as this has been found to have a blood-pressure-lowering effect which may or may not be related to concomitant reduction of dietary sodium ( Reisin et al , 1978 ; Tuck et al , 1981 ; Fagerberg et al , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Counter arguments may not be employed to full effect , and individual injustices ( perhaps involving parents who have been subject to wholly baseless accusations ) may not be exposed . |
| 21 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 22 | The bond market , for example , may not be opened to foreign competition until 1995 . |
| 23 | Any information so discovered must be confined to the authority empowered by the warrant to discover it , and may not be disclosed to private persons or private bodies . |
| 24 | Before a distinguished audience Dr Robert Koch , the eminent Berlin bacteriologist , who in 1882 had described the tubercle bacillus , lecturing on the subject of the disease , stated positively that the bacillus found in infected animals could not be transferred to human beings . |
| 25 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |
| 26 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 27 | While reiterating that the demand for international inspections of North Korea 's nuclear facilities could not be linked to other issues , the government stated its willingness to discuss the nuclear issue " for the purposes of reducing tension and building confidence " . |
| 28 | They called upon North Korea to submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities as an act of compliance with international law , stressing that the issue could not be linked to other matters such as the payment of Japanese compensation for Korea 's pre-1945 colonization . |
| 29 | This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement . |
| 30 | What is more , schemata need not be limited to unordered catalogues of people and things within a stereotyped situation , or stereotyped sequences of events telling us what is likely to happen next . |