Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise of these powers can not be successfully challenged in the courts unless it can be shown that the Home Secretary has acted unreasonably or perversely . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 3 | Details which are ignored in the source text but which have to be specified in the target language can pose a serious dilemma for the translator if they can not be reasonably inferred from the context . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other monies will not be separately identified from the general rate support grant from the Department of the Environment , a decision which will make it very difficult to identify exactly what is being spent on services by individual authorities . |
| 6 | In order to regulate this market to prevent domination and exploitation , the terms of contractual obligations can not be freely chosen by the parties but are shaped by a concern for trust , solidarity and fairness . |
| 7 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Manager Kevin Keegan is confident Bracewell will not be unduly troubled by the tendon trouble . |
| 10 | Defective colour perception has a high incidence among males ( one in ten ) and teachers should be aware of the fact that some of the coloured materials that they present will not be normally discriminated by a proportion of their pupils . |
| 11 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 12 | Such differences could mean that homogeneous products could not be effectively marketed on a Pan-European basis . |
| 13 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 14 | The following response : ‘ Topics which can not be adequately covered by the Council 's training policy ’ was rare . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there was considerable anxiety among advisers that they would not be adequately prepared for the changeover . |
| 16 | It can be argued that the interests of the various groups affected by company decision making — employees , local communities , consumers , and all of us , through our interest in the environment , for example — are invested with a moral significance that can not be adequately captured within the relatively finite external legal controls that are currently relied on to regulate the terms on which wealth is created . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State argued , inter alia , that the selection process necessary now that the grammar schools were to be retained could not be adequately organised within the available time , and that this was unreasonable behaviour within section 68 . |
| 18 | This would create a great strain on the NHS , which would be dominated by the high-risk groups who would not be particularly welcomed by the private insurance companies . |
| 19 | ( ii ) A defective matrix can not be similarly transformed into a real symmetric matrix . |
| 20 | Behaviour can not be developmentally divided into the inherited and the learned ( or environmental ) ; all behaviour is influenced by both factors . |
| 21 | The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time . |
| 22 | Lines distinguishing different groups and generations could not be completely erased by the building of a sense of common commitment and endeavour . |
| 23 | For example , permission to carry out development can not be completely frustrated by the terms of the condition . |
| 24 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 25 | However , what is perceived as the belligerent , aggressive , lively , gregarious character of the Afro-Caribbean pupil , can not be easily ignored by the teachers , and presents a constant reminder of the nature of the school . |
| 26 | Holders Waringstown flashed a warning that they will not be easily deprived of the trophy , sweeping out Phoenix Park for only 45 in Dublin and winning by nine wickets . |
| 27 | A band that rages across the rock firmament with such intensity that they can not be easily assimilated into the serried ranks of all the other homogenous contenders . |
| 28 | The recognition of parents who intentionally harmed their children could not be easily accommodated within the understanding of what these services were there to do : the scandals and the subsequent enquiries revealed time and again that social workers could not see what to lay people was painfully obvious , and what lawyers and other professionals ( with the benefit of hindsight ) constructed to be their duty to recognize . |
| 29 | Although their output can not be easily measured like the productivity of a factory , nevertheless they are vital to the nation 's economy as well as to its stability and happiness . |
| 30 | [ The ] political function [ of ministers and departments ] can not be easily translated into the language of financial management ’ . |