Example sentences of "they [vb mod] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , muscles need different types of exercise ; exercise that contracts muscles but does not elongate them may not be adequate . |
| 2 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 3 | The fact that the claim is made in third party proceedings in the context of a denial by the third defendant that he has conspired against the plaintiffs or defrauded them must not be allowed to conceal the fact that the claim for contribution from the third party necessarily asserts the contrary , albeit on a contingent basis . |
| 4 | The fact that ECGD may have instructed them should not be taken as an endorsement of their expertise , official or otherwise . |
| 5 | In Sweden , it is claimed that nearly 10,000 lakes have such high concentrations of mercury that any fish caught in them should not be eaten . |
| 6 | G. R.Shepherd , the Labour National Agent , wrote to local Labour Parties in March 1939 , warning them against close liaison with the Club : Since groups of the Left Book Club are not entitled to affiliation with constituency parties , joint political activities with them should not be entered into , especially when these are in the direction of a so-called " Popular Front " with any other political party . |
| 7 | But the British Menopause Society is warning that many of them might not be taking it for long enough . |
| 8 | And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant . |
| 9 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 10 | People used to have an instinctive feeling that all that waste matter hanging around inside them could not be doing them any good . |
| 11 | In Howard E. Perry & Co . Ltd. v. B.R.B. it was held that the defendants ' refusal to allow the plaintiffs to enter their premises to collect goods which belonged to them could not be justified by their fear of intensified industrial action . |
| 12 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 13 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 14 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 15 | On the 21 June , 1955 , the Caribbean Commission informed Williams that his contract with them would not be renewed . |
| 16 | There is one exception to this rule of not searching the unregistered Land Charges Register in the case of registered land : prospective mortgagors who are buying a registered property have , as yet ( until they complete their purchase ) , no title to the registered land ; and therefore a bankruptcy or a receiving order made against them would not be disclosed by a title search . |
| 17 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 18 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 19 | People in pictures can be more problematic to describe , since they may not be identifiable , a special difficulty with portraits . |
| 20 | ‘ They may not be sending them abroad — ‘ That is what they promised when James enlisted . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They may not be the future , but they do craft good songs . ’ |
| 22 | They may not be unduly apprehensive about climate change , but they know about the greenhouse effect and how the state of the world and their own localities impinges on their lives . |
| 23 | They may not be so for much longer . |
| 24 | This time they may not be so lucky . |
| 25 | But , molly-coddled by the government for years , they may not be equipped to stand on their own two feet . |
| 26 | Solid profits and a strong balance sheet help make a great company , but they may not be enough to make it admired . |
| 27 | Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging . |
| 28 | In addition Mr Patient is very likely to have had one or two close friends , probably from some ti me back in his life history , who may be dramatically affected by his death , even though they may not be visibly there close by or apparently very emotionally involved . |
| 29 | The following year he sent to Gronovius in Holland ‘ many curiosities ’ via Collinson , hoping they may not be intercepted by the French and Spaniards , as the year before . |
| 30 | They may not be deliberately malicious , just children looking for a little adventure , but soon windows are smashed and the doors forced open . |