Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purchasers may find that although land has detailed planning approval it may not be economically viable to develop and local planning authorities may be reluctant to embrace alternative proposals . |
| 2 | However , one need not be overly cynical to realise that having a good idea of what masses of people are likely to do in response to certain policies gives a competitive advantage to politicians and businessmen alike . |
| 3 | When you reflect on all these amenities , you may not be entirely surprised to learn that we are the only Scottish hotel to be awarded the Royal Automobile Club 's prized Blue Ribbon award for superlative levels of excellence . |
| 4 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 5 | It may have become obvious to Pius and his advisers that a Council would not be as easy to manipulate as they had imagined . |
| 6 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 7 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 8 | But it may not be too late to suggest that Waugh 's reputation for right-wingery — a reputation swallowed by Orwell and many since — has been mildly overdone . |
| 9 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 10 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 11 | It would therefore not be too unfair to conclude that many teachers , whether in primary or secondary schools , are , by tradition , unfamiliar with discussions that involve the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 12 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 13 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 14 | Advocates of each conception of contracts have failed to recognize that they may not be so much disagreeing as attempting to answer different questions . |
| 15 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 16 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 17 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |