Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | But in any case the concept of supranational defence integration had not been as carefully considered and researched , and its potential participants fully persuaded of its value , in advance as had been the case with the ECSC . |
2 | Fortunately the boy had not been too badly hurt but he did require minor surgery in addition to the treatment of several cuts and bruises . |
3 | But I am no such creature , the king thought , burning in his own fury and grief , I can not be thus constantly outdone and bear no grudge . |
4 | There are signs , however , that Kelly and company may not be quite so entrenched as McKeag would like to think . |
5 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
6 | The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 . |
7 | Second , political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand . |
8 | A colleague of mine , in an inner-city team ministry , which faces a thousand funerals a year , can not be as personally involved as he would wish . |
9 | This may not be as far fetched as it seems , considering the low nutrient content of tropical forest soil . |
10 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |
11 | My Lords , at a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject of bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
12 | ‘ At a time when more and more cases involve the application of legislation which gives effect to policies that are the subject or bitter public and parliamentary controversy , it can not be too strongly emphasised that the British constitution , though largely unwritten , is firmly based upon the separation of powers ; Parliament makes the laws , the judiciary interpret them . |
13 | It can not be too strongly stressed that people who use public parks enjoy seeing the building that was once its raison d'être . |
14 | It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance . |
15 | It can not be too highly stressed that nobody else can exercise your subject/class choice but you . |
16 | It can not be too often repeated that there is no reason whatsoever why humanity should be made to believe that its religion must have origins in the literature and man-made traditions of the remote past . |
17 | The case highlighted the difficulty facing a mortgagee when a person other than its borrower lives at the mortgaged premises , for such person , as confirmed by this case , may have rights or interests in that property ( although the principles of the case are not being so strictly applied as was first thought — see Bristol & West Building Society v Henning [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 606 and Midland Bank Ltd v Dobson ( 1985 ) NLJ 26 July , 251 ) . |
18 | I 'm not doing it because of that , I 'm doing it because I prefer to do it , but it is n't that , it 's just the fact that I wo n't be here tomorrow to go and |