Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , having won our laurels we must not be tempted to rest on them . |
| 2 | Yet I must not be understood to rely on any so-called growth dividend . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as Wensley ( 1981 ) argues , the portfolio grids must not be used to suggest to non-financial experts that the company must be a cash recycling machine ignoring the external market as a source of funds . |
| 4 | It must not be allowed to happen to anyone else . |
| 5 | The courts are unwilling to adjourn a petition more than once since it must not be allowed to hang over the debtor 's head indefinitely . |
| 6 | Such feelings are understandable but she must not be allowed to brood on them . |
| 7 | Damp must not be allowed to enter as rot can quickly result . |
| 8 | Because it is pathological it must not be allowed to appear in public in its own form . |
| 9 | Clients must not be requested to assist in the physical restraint of a fellow client . |
| 10 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 11 | Lists of names of authors should not be differentiated according to gender , by using first names for female writers but only family names for male writers ( as in " Shakespeare , Milton , Jane Austen , Hardy " ) . |
| 12 | Labour social security spokesman Donald Dewar said : ‘ Claimants should not be made to pay for Government 's economic incompetence . ’ |
| 13 | Ba pe was sacked from the Cabinet early in May : Aung San told the public that his Ministers ‘ enjoyed an untarnished reputation for incorruptibility and honesty of purpose [ and ] should not be made to suffer on account of anyone who strayed from the path ’ . |
| 14 | But whether people should not be called to account for continuing to hold such a picture today is another question . |
| 15 | However , his teacher warned that proficiency in conversational language should not be assumed to equate with proficiency in cognitive or ‘ academic ’ language . |
| 16 | If there are alternative theft and handling counts , the jurors should not be instructed to convict of the offence which it seems more probable to them that the accused committed . |
| 17 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 18 | This is in contrast with Mr Bangemann 's declaration on Monday that West Germans should not be asked to choose between their desire to overcome Germany 's division and their support for greater European integration . |
| 19 | Pensioners who have given a lifetime 's service to the nation should not be asked to pay for a T V licence , and those out of work through no fault of their own , except for a government policy . |
| 20 | As they stepped on to the landing he signalled her to go ahead while he hung back so they should not be seen arriving in the newsroom together . |
| 21 | All correspondence from members should be sent to the office for forwarding to the relevant officers , and members should not be encouraged to call at anyone 's home without an invitation . |
| 22 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 23 | But the paper added : ‘ It is also right that people should not be forced to work into old age in jobs that may , on the one hand , impose physical or mental demands which are beyond their capacity or , on the other , be boring and repetitive . ’ |
| 24 | This will be needed — but should not be expected to exist from the outset — if the group is to become an effective working group . |
| 25 | It follows that a particular score from an intelligence appraisal can be a useful cut-off point in that those who do not attain the cut-off should not be expected to cope with the demands of the particular task . |
| 26 | Nursing care is individual to each patient , as the patient should not be expected to conform to a set pattern of treatment . |
| 27 | A survey in South Wales indicated that two-thirds of older people supported the view that children should not be expected to look after their elderly parents . |
| 28 | Students should not be expected to learn in ‘ cowsheds ’ , they said . |
| 29 | But are they so important that the teachers should not be expected to know about technical and vocational education , about an important part , in other words , of the education service towards which many of their pupils will , in time , be moving ? |
| 30 | It would appear that access to the health service is reasonably equitable between men and women , and that women 's longer lives should not be attributed to prejudice against men in the health sector ! |