Example sentences of "one must [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , one must not underestimate the importance of earlier ideas about press freedom , nor must one underestimate the extent to which these ideas still reside within more complex statements about the mass media .
2 However , all this said and done , just as historians and archaeologists are today able to reconstruct the meaning of obsolescent forms of recording such as hieroglyphics or the structure and form of ancient buildings through the analysis of postholes , one must not underestimate the ability of future generations to decode the electronic records that are being created by today 's society .
3 I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime .
4 The creep of the wood is the reason why one must not leave a wooden bow or a violin tightly strung .
5 In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer .
6 But one must not hasten justice at the expense of justice . ’
7 However , one must not forget that there is already an existing decision-making process in every school .
8 One must not forget that .
9 One must not forget that EP has generated its own industry as well .
10 No one has advanced our studies so far in this direction , although one must not forget the valuable work of M. R. Hull on the Colchester industry ( 1963 ) .
11 And one must not forget that many of these functions can become dysfunctions , and assume a negative or pathological form : faulty selection , awkward induction , rigid structure , poor teaching , inadequate materials , invalid assessment , and so on .
12 Granted , one must not hypothesise wildly ; one must confine one 's speculation to the framework of known historical data and probabilities .
13 Table 1.4 also gives some sense of the differences of emphasis within these broad subject categories , showing that polytechnic/college courses are often ‘ applied ’ , whereas those in the universities are ( by implication ) often ‘ theoretical ’ or ‘ pure ’ ; although one must not rely too much on labels in higher education .
14 One must not give way to despair .
15 In a company of men one must not give way ; it is one 's duty not to show fear and if one senses fear in another , automatically one becomes braver .
16 ‘ In the ideal I have of Art , I think that one must not show one 's own , and that the artist must no more appear in his work than God does in nature .
17 As this is one of the main characteristics of the late medieval rural economy , one must not expect too much from the evidence of excavations .
18 One must not open up the possibility for either partner in a marriage or a relationship to murder their partner , not as a result of a sudden , temporary loss of control , but as a result of a careful , well thought out and premeditated plan .
19 One must not exaggerate such things and fall into excesses , but nature has fixed laws which it is fatal to struggle against . ’
20 Here one catches a glimpse of a table bright with silver , glass , and flowers against the dark background of the seating which runs round three sides of the table … one must not omit to mention the obvious adaptability of the hall to festive occasions .
21 So one must not reject pyjamas .
22 However , one must not use the McKinsey grid in a deterministic way and infer that most investment must take place in ‘ stars ’ .
23 This general principle must be qualified : " one must not strive to create ambiguities by strained interpretation " ( Lord Wilberforce in Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 964 ) .
24 But one must not burden others unnecessarily .
25 Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills .
26 ‘ And I tell you frankly that in my opinion one must not hesitate to go to a prostitute occasionally if there is one you can trust and feel something for … .
27 One must not overlook the ‘ crisis of 1858 ‘ , when scurrilous anonymous letters appeared in the London Times complaining about the sewage in Pau , and the high price of lodgings , while a few years later another medical man , Dr Madden , publicly attacked the climate as pernicious for pulmonary cases .
28 It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be .
29 And I think there is a deeper sense in which erm one must n't conceive the breakdown of a philosophical enterprise , like this one of Russell 's , as being a failure .
30 Yes , and that is Saddam 's dilemma , I mean , yo the point about him is this , one must n't think of him as being a rational er politician who does sensible things , for sensible reasons .
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