Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] go " in BNC.

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1 They must not go at all .
2 But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work .
3 More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist .
4 ‘ You must not go there ; you will be killed ! ’ warned my cab driver …
5 of influence which must not go away ,
6 Characters must not go white in the face , that is to say , or tremble like leaves — ‘ not because these phrases are clichés , but because they are untrue . ’
7 good practice must not go to waste without the proper commitment and backing
8 Duncan C. Macgregor clearly delineates the boundary beyond which scholarship must not go , in his review of William York Tindall 's book on Bunyan .
9 ‘ This must not go by default , ’ pronounced Herluin at his most majestic .
10 But these hijackers must not go free .
11 Staff must not go unaccompanied in such situations .
12 But you must not go alone .
13 ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes .
14 But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ?
15 But the designer must not go too far in the other direction by filling the schedule with deeply sensitive and thought-provoking questions so that the respondent is exhausted after a short period .
16 Junctions controlled by police or a traffic warden , when all traffic is held up by police officer or traffic warden you must not go left or right until you are signalled to do so .
17 While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November .
18 Not at all ; good writing is so infernally difficult that even the most modest achievement ( and Pound 's claims for some of these poets are modest indeed ) should not go unacknowledged .
19 Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever .
20 Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward .
21 Willink thought that perhaps he should not go ; but he also discontented Ramsey by treating it as a problem in how Ramsey should get the best career in a worldly sense .
22 ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said .
23 Much of Thatcherism is common sense and it should not go out of fashion .
24 Judge Owen stayed the proceedings last November , ruling the trial should not go ahead because delays in bringing it to court amounted to an abuse of the court process .
25 Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them .
26 The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go .
27 But as too many ‘ left ’ cultural theorists line up to claim their rightful place in the bin-bags of history , the space they have evacuated should not go unfilled .
28 Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring .
29 Determined that she should not go the same way as her sister , Jonadab Oaks had ruled Martha with a rod of iron ever since Tamar 's seduction by Sir William Forster .
30 It was therefore in Magnetics ' interest that Electronics should not go into liquidation .
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