Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [be] [vb pp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their relative goodness of fit can not properly be judged because the hypotheses do not cover the same input . |
| 2 | Requests for adaptations to classroom lighting or for individual lamps can not sensibly be made until the principles are understood . |
| 3 | These claims should not merely be paid because the amount involved is small . |
| 4 | ‘ In the judgment of this court , when a witness is shown to have made previous statements inconsistent with the evidence given by that witness at the trial , the jury should not merely be directed that the evidence given at the trial should be regarded as unreliable ; they should also be directed that the previous statements , whether sworn or unsworn , do not constitute evidence upon which they can act . |
| 5 | The pictures look like war photos and the costs will not easily be assessed but the first estimates to repair the damages run between $2.5 and $4 million . |
| 6 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 7 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 8 | Those insights could not just be abandoned but no one could understand how something could be both a wave and a particle . |
| 9 | It is well known that heat can be used to kill malignant cells but this approach can not normally be used where the tumour cells are deeply seated in the body , as can be the case in bone tumours . |
| 10 | ( The results can not possibly be declared if the applications and coursework have not even been submitted ) . |
| 11 | It is true that Morris contains no disapproval or qualification of Lawrence , but , in my view , the main statements of principle in these cases can not possibly be reconciled and the later case therefore must not be regarded as providing any support for the earlier . |
| 12 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 13 | In view of the widespread publicity given to Peter Wright 's book " Spycatcher " it was felt that such damage could not now be established and the injunction against publication was discharged . |
| 14 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 15 | However , such a calculation should not even be attempted if the consequence is failure to complete the easier parts of the question . |
| 16 | The 20 year interval between the first influx of nuclear workers in the late 1950s and the cluster of cases near Dounreay beginning in 1979 could not readily be explained since the excesses usually followed fairly quickly on other types of population mixing . |
| 17 | It could not therefore be said that the defendant was assuming any rights . " |