Example sentences of "[modal v] not go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 2 | But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ? |
| 3 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 4 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 6 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 7 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
| 8 | Much of Thatcherism is common sense and it should not go out of fashion . |
| 9 | He was then released on bail and , as is the custom , the police required conditions of his bail that he should not go back to his girlfriend 's address to prevent any possibility of any further offending . |
| 10 | The question of taking pension holidays in between out of surplus is a sort of mid midway position , but er very definitely we feel strongly that money should not go back to the company . |
| 11 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 12 | There may be important conditions to be observed ( eg to ensure that the road has been adopted by the local authority ) , and if it is not possible to comply with these , the mortgage may not go through . |
| 13 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 14 | It may or may not go on to say " produced in conjunction with brand X or company Y " . |
| 15 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 16 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 17 | Yeah cos I might I might not go up , you know , I see what Sheila says so |
| 18 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 19 | While the church dominated governing body of King 's College , London , did not object to Lyell 's geology , it sacked the theologian F. D. Maurice for suggesting that the indescribable torture of the damned might not go on for ever . |
| 20 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 21 | This , perhaps , might not go down too well in Scotland where he will find firms of chartered surveyors more than ready to rise to the challenge . |
| 22 | She could not go up , only down . |
| 23 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 24 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 25 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 26 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 27 | Mr Kinnock could not go on ‘ inflicting his anger on the people of Hong Kong ’ . |
| 28 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 29 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 30 | He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him . |