Example sentences of "be not [verb] [prep] a certain " in BNC.

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1 Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should .
2 Secondly , because the horse is not locked into a certain form of behaviour by habit , it will have more flexibility of mind about doing new things and it will be more easily motivated to learn something different .
3 It has two essential components : identification of the debt and a clear statement that proceedings will be issued if payment is not made within a certain period , say ten days .
4 Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader .
5 If so an embargo can be employed to make sure that the material is not published before a certain time .
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