Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should not come to us again . ’ |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) . |
| 3 | Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners . |
| 4 | It is time to take into account the feelings and views of the ‘ natives ’ and to make it quite clear that anyone who does not want to be part of the family should n't come to the house . |
| 5 | There are two main types of reason why people may not come to the CAB : physical ones and psychological ones . |
| 6 | People usually start to feel better about a problem when they have some explanation for it , but hang-ups relating to very early patterns of relating between mother and baby which we have been describing may not come to light within the time normally allowed for this type of treatment . |
| 7 | ‘ It may not come to that . ’ |
| 8 | It may not come to it . |
| 9 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 10 | ‘ But it might not come to that . |
| 11 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 12 | Fenna , by all the ancient laws , could not come to her until she invited him ; but he could , and did , will her to invite him , and the will of dragons is strong . |
| 13 | We can find justifying arguments for its ethical contents , even if we could not come to them on our own . |
| 14 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 15 | The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning . |
| 16 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I would be very sad if we could not come to an agreement with the tanker owners . |
| 18 | She could n't coming to me . |
| 19 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 20 | Philip thought that maybe Mrs Wright 's friend was an invalid and could n't come to the door to open it . |
| 21 | on the logo front when Linda wrote to me and said she could n't come to this meeting |
| 22 | Marie Claire had written to say she could n't come to the wedding and had sent a present of yet more tablecloths and napkins . |
| 23 | Ca n't remember when he went but my my sister wanted to come down but course she could n't come to mum 's because he was there . |
| 24 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 25 | She said , Listen I 'm giving a little bit Peggy because , she said , I could n't go away if I could n't come to you . |
| 26 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 27 | ‘ You need n't come to the house if you do n't wish to . |
| 28 | Dunkeld Bridge is one of Telford 's finest achievements , overlooking path to Birnam Oak , reputedly the last remaining tree of the Birnam Wood which Macbeth was sure would not come to Dunsinane . |
| 29 | He would not come to me in Paris ; so I went to him . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |