Example sentences of "[modal v] not [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is clearly er erm a situation where erm we must not knowingly take business which we have not enjoyed before at a price below |
| 2 | He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology , he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated . |
| 3 | These lessons must not only concern infrastructure , but also process ; not only the ‘ what ’ of traffic calming but also the ‘ how ’ . |
| 4 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |
| 5 | The company says farmers not achieving good control from their herbicide should not automatically blame resistance . |
| 6 | The test adopted in both cases was that the decision-maker should not capriciously withhold approval . |
| 7 | There was a strong belief that radio should not merely give prominence to the national leadership but also take measures to reduce foreign influence and content in its programmes . |
| 8 | There was a growing awareness that to be Latin rather than Anglo-Saxon should not necessarily imply inferiority . |
| 9 | One health authority is already negotiating with a French hospital , but it is under the impression that it may not yet make use of that facility . |
| 10 | Worse still , it may not even make sense to the target reader . |
| 11 | Illite overgrowths on grains , may not visibly decrease porosity — but permeability is severely restricted , especially if the illite is in the ‘ hairy ’ form . |
| 12 | A local authority may not therefore provide accommodation against the wishes of any person with parental responsibility who is willing and able to provide or arrange accommodation for the child himself ( s20(7) ) . |
| 13 | Such an analysis may not totally determine strategy , but it is a tool with which management accountants should be familiar . |
| 14 | Consequently , there 's a chummy atmosphere on the record that may not always result int he most demanding , creative working mood , but there 's a fond , happy ambience in the grooves which ai n't bad . |
| 15 | Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources . |
| 16 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 17 | Such sponsorships provide support for events which might not otherwise take place , providing pleasure and entertainment for the public . |
| 18 | Dworkin uses the process work approach , which operates on the theory that a predilection for certain substances and behaviours might not necessarily mean addiction . |
| 19 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 20 | This man could not easily imagine life without hot water , at least not for people like himself and Alice . |
| 21 | And if a developer could not immediately secure rent from premises it builds at the dock , the Private Finance Initiative would provide it in the short-term , until the property market improves . |
| 22 | A strategic site if it comes forward would be away from the main urban areas and would only be available for developments that could not otherwise take place on the I five allocations . |
| 23 | At Altnagelvin Hospital , Londonderry , nursing staff said they could not ethically give information , but details eventually were given after correspondence with the Western Board ; |
| 24 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 25 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 26 | Hells bells ! they could not even spell teem ! |
| 27 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 28 | I gave one deflection burst from port beam at about 350 yards and one careful stern burst from the same distance , but could not even keep pace with this shallow dive . |
| 29 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 30 | Within the terms of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention it could not therefore claim performance of this support if it were to become needed . |