Example sentences of "they [modal v] not [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company structure introduces the statutory requirement for an audit and the concept of directors ' liability even though they may not be shareholders . |
| 2 | They must not be accommodation bills , where no underlying transaction exists , where the bill has been accepted so that it can be discounted for capital purposes . |
| 3 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 4 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 5 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 6 | they were n't , they were n't gentlemen so they could n't be er they could n't be officers . |
| 7 | Such new-style RE must be taught by experts , though they need not be theologians . |
| 8 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 9 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
| 10 | It is time that players realised that if their club had not given them their chance they would not be internationals . |
| 11 | Though they are not much good on paper — if they were they would not be generals — they can not resist the squat little volumes . |
| 12 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
| 13 | They would n't be Paul ? |
| 14 | If they were not they would n't be rocks , they would be sand . |
| 15 | TOM : But they would n't be trees . |
| 16 | and towards the end of the film , ’ If ( transexuals ) were normal , they would n't be transexuals . ’ |
| 17 | So if erm , if they 're not used , they 've got to be thrown away , they ca n't be sort of used again the next day , the veg . |
| 18 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 19 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 20 | They will not be roads you or I can use . |
| 21 | They will not be martyrs , for most of them will be astute as well as honest . |
| 22 | Assistant head of the hotel school , John Staples , adds : ‘ They wo n't be experts but they 'll have a good understanding of what it 's all about . |
| 23 | They wo n't be interest to someone . |
| 24 | It would have formalised the position that individuals can have rights and obligations imposed upon them by treaties to which they can not be parties . |