Example sentences of "[modal v] not [be] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year he will begin to bring it ‘ up to date ’ and emphasise that honours should not be automatically awarded to people who have kept their noses clean in certain jobs , but that they must be earned . |
| 2 | Many teachers are now persuaded that English lessons should not be solely confined to ‘ great ’ literature , but should include all kinds of ‘ texts ’ , spoken and written , together with popular forms such as television commercials , bestsellers and comics ; |
| 3 | Secondly , the adversary nature of the adjudicative process may not be well suited to this area . |
| 4 | An organisation 's objectives , particularly the relative priorities of different goals , may not be clearly conveyed to or understood by individuals . |
| 5 | In these two examples , we are reminded that what cloze is measuring is the predictability , or more accurately , the redundancy within a passage , and this may or may not be closely related to its comprehensibility . |
| 6 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 7 | This does n't mean that they could n't be completely redesigned to be even better . |
| 8 | erm last year we introduced a Home Care charge , based on attendance allowance , and a number of families of elderly people got in touch with me and they 're were obviously particular reasons why the charge could n't be fairly levied to them . |
| 9 | This newly created honourary office carried with it ex officio membership of the executive committee so that , it was hoped Ayliffe 's years of experience would not be wholly lost to the Association by his decision not to offer himself for reelection as President . |
| 10 | However , an irregular inflection like sung would be listed , so that the lexical rule for the formation of the regular plural present tense would not be inappropriately applied to the base to give singed . |
| 11 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 12 | Lots of them do n't carry any radio at all and even those who do almost certainly would n't be permanently tuned to the distress frequency . ’ |
| 13 | Remember to search in the Land Charges Department against the borrower , whether or not the title is registered , for possible bankruptcy , and also , for the same purpose , against any guarantor of the loan : a bankrupt surety would n't be much help to anyone . |
| 14 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 15 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 16 | I hope he will not be permanently lost to tennis . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 're asking me , ’ she said carefully , ‘ to come into consultation and share responsibility for whatever decisions we have to make about Great-Uncle Alan 's affairs , of course I will , though I do n't claim to know anything about business and I probably sha n't be much help to you . |
| 18 | Mark wo n't be there to see to it ? |
| 19 | ‘ And you wo n't be much help to Rick if you starve yourself , so at least have a sandwich and a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 20 | And the house to Mr Evans though it wo n't be much use to him . |
| 21 | ‘ I wo n't be much use to you if you wo n't tell me . ’ |
| 22 | When Pat Samson , the model for ‘ Girl with a Squint ’ had her squint corrected , the artist is reported as having ‘ joked ’ : ‘ Oh hell , he wo n't be much use to me now ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ It wo n't be much use to them , ’ said a police spokesman |
| 24 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 25 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 26 | But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them . |
| 27 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 28 | We therefore have to face the fact that there are structural differences between rat and monkey cortex that can not be simply attributed to differences in size . |
| 29 | Nationalism is linked to deep-rooted human instincts and can not be easily ascribed to clever politicians . |
| 30 | Slightly enlarged glands are very common and can not be definitely linked to HIV infection . |