Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good resolution : I must not be fey . |
| 2 | I 'll not be more'n a stone 's throw from the door , so rid th'self of thoughts about taking off . |
| 3 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 4 | But Graham added : ‘ I will not be panic buying . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I can not be doctor , ’ he said , pointing to his head and grinning . |
| 6 | The mask activates a variety of features , at least some of which will not be features of the target letter . |
| 7 | In Schopenhauerian terms , this means that music becomes will , or rather that music , which can not be will , makes its appearance as will . |
| 8 | The corrosive acids of modernity have powerfully assisted a general movement of ‘ secularisation ’ , and faced all kinds of religious tradition — Christian and non-Christian alike — with a challenge which can not be ignored . |
| 9 | The form of declaration with regard to directors ( Schedule 4 of Section 2 of the Yellow Book ) should usually be reviewed by the sponsors ( which can not be KPMG ) at the preliminary review stage . |
| 10 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 11 | Part of the task of the Census Dissemination Unit has been to encourage academics who may not be computer literate to use the data . |
| 12 | Made up of the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee , the Leader of the House of Commons and seven other members of the House ( who must not be ministers ) , its purpose is to oversee the National Audit Office , in approving the annual budget and appointing the auditor for the Office 's own accounts . |
| 13 | I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone . |
| 14 | Due to a number of circumstances Amy feels she should not be treasurer for nineteen ninety one . |
| 15 | The political élite regarded the situation after December 1848 as one which would be finite , destined to end in 1852 with the election of a new President , who could not be Louis-Napoleon since the Constitution precluded a second term . |
| 16 | c ) The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment . |
| 17 | The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment . |
| 18 | Possibly it was thought that for this reason , amongst others , she would not be suspect by our controls . |
| 19 | Sally-Anne — she would not be McAllister again until she reached Vetch Street — bit her lip . |
| 20 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 21 | Those who will not be God 's sons become his tools ’ ; and Ilúvatar to Melkor , ‘ no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me … he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful , which he himself hath not imagined ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 22 | On the other hand — again , just looking at the economics — while you are working , you will not be spending money on entertainment . |
| 23 | ‘ But she can not be Queen . |
| 24 | ‘ And you can not be slaves . |
| 25 | Unless you both know your HIV status through having a test , you can not be 100% sure . |
| 26 | He wants to be remembered for more that his ‘ Pits of the Earth ’ and ‘ You can not be series ’ outbursts . |
| 27 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 28 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 29 | So the customers will be myself , Maggie sales people throughout the day and tomorrow we 'll not be customers in any way , shape or form . |
| 30 | We will not be wage slaves any more . |