Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] not [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 2 | Many of the meats in this category may not immediately be labelled as sausages in your mind , but this is where they fit in the standard delicatessen classification . |
| 3 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |
| 4 | Mr Birt 's display of candour and remorse has not stopped the seepage , leaving the vague impression the whole story may not yet be known . |
| 5 | If the child is of sufficient understanding his views should not simply be disregarded because it is difficult to ascertain them . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that this claim has impressed many as an important reason why his views should not only be taken seriously but accepted as true . |
| 7 | Co-operation and co-ordination should not therefore be restricted to the library sector — it should reach out . |
| 8 | It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question , even though the decision might be wrong . |
| 9 | Although the final result may not not be known until mid-morning , computer predictions indicated Mr Major was on his way back to Downing Street with a small majority . |
| 10 | While you may be perfectly willing to hand over authority this action may not always be received with enthusiasm . |
| 11 | His title-pages specify that his songs may not only be sung but also played ‘ on all sorts of instruments ’ ( auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen ) ; indeed the non-tenor parts are often obviously instrumental , as in Senfl 's ‘ Wol kumpt der May ’ in Ott 's 121 . |
| 12 | His conception of civil association as a form of moral association and his idea of jus of lex should not therefore be viewed rationalistically . |
| 13 | The English conventions for punctuation for instance , may have some advantages for some purposes , although disambiguating ‘ sentence ’ units should not necessarily be taken as a significant one . |
| 14 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 15 | Paul counsels that believers should not knowingly be married to those who are not followers of Christ . |
| 16 | News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers . |
| 17 | Who could tell whether the rout might not merely be accelerated , turning into a complete collapse and unbarring the most direct approach to Paris ? |
| 18 | The second , however , has not been seen in our study or in others and could be related to the possibility that gastric acid secretion might not necessarily be raised when NSAIDs are taken on longterm basis , three years in this study . |
| 19 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 20 | It is naive and dangerous to imagine that our children or their schools could n't possibly be involved . |
| 21 | Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings . |
| 22 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 23 | Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate . |
| 24 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 25 | It is clear that such gaps restrict methods of handling data ( see chapters 5 and 6 ) ; for example data for age- and sex-groups could not easily be aggregated . |
| 26 | This staggering figure could not easily be explained away . |
| 27 | Er but the most characteristic kind of war er our i is rather limited war a and violence need not necessarily be expressed in the form of erm a formal attack , it can be used of course to threaten or to deter . |
| 28 | ‘ He said the rent would not necessarily be raised in future after stating that it would be index-linked and he also wants to stage concerts and fetes at the ground in the close season when we would need to work on the pitch . ’ |
| 29 | More specifically , the model of responsible party government carried within itself the view that the electorate would not just be informed about politics but would vote for the party which has a programme of policies in accord with their own view as to how things should be . |
| 30 | As the team leader was chair of the allocation and review committee , he was well aware of the current situation , though entries would not always be made in the social work file . |