Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For , not only must these systems perform the required service in a timely and efficient manner , but also they must not be exposed to the threat of failure or interference .
2 Any commission paid to a foreign sub-agent should not be charged to the artist .
3 Spiritual direction need not be limited to a twosome .
4 I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day .
5 The benefits would not be limited to the traveller .
6 Farm animals could not be led to the school , and their illnesses were often too rapid in course to permit of their transport .
7 A surplus can not be refunded to the company except by dissolution of the scheme in accordance with the rules of the scheme and relevant legislation .
8 NB A guest should not be invited to the service and not to the reception .
9 Particularly those dear , good people at the back who , although asked to attend the service , could not be invited to the reception .
10 The policy regarding transfusion of red cells was as previously described ; staff present at delivery could not be blinded to the treatment group but were seldom responsible for ordering transfusion .
11 The customer can not be bound to the finance company by his signature on a document which the finance company 's agent knows does not reflect the customer 's intention .
12 Requests that letters should not be sent to the home address or that the telephone should not be used are always respected .
13 The report need not be made to a constable .
14 We shall assume that , by definition , an adjective , which instantiates a property , can not be related to a noun phrase identifying an entity by the relation of equation , and we have to deal in predicative position only with the other intensional relation found in items following a form of to be , assignment of qualification .
15 Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods .
16 However , devices on the server that use redirection ( networks , CD ROMS etc. ) will not be re-directed to the client machine , which is a bit of a shame .
17 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national
18 This outward aggression , however , if it can not be expressed to the object has to be turned inwards in depression , which is anger turned back upon the person .
19 The question of criminal liability can not be relegated to a matter of medical consensus .
20 The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history .
21 The danger in being too rigid is that justice will not be done to the flexibility and complexity of human performance .
22 Lord Keith held that the distinction between evidence and discovery was recognised both in the Act and in Article 23 of the Convention ; it was not disputed by counsel that effect could not be given to a request merely seeking discovery .
23 Whether or not there is a place for a trade union Ombudsman to carry out investigations and give general advice to unions , it is considered that this task should not be given to the Commissioner in view of the benefit to be derived from her maintaining an independent position .
24 But the King could not be asked to the dinner because protocol would demand that he be seated above Carter .
25 I feel that that is a good time at which to review the implications for the future , and I very much hope that the expertise that now exists will not be lost to the industry .
26 The former Kent and England spinner Derek Underwood , director of cricket at Club Surfaces , had this to say : ‘ Of course I enjoy seeing our pitches go in at the Etons and Tonbridges , but it is at grass-roots level within the state-schools sector that the wealth of untapped talent must not be lost to the game . ’
27 ‘ Thirty months have not elapsed since you first determined that the noble bequest of the late Mr. Whitbread should not be lost to the County of Bedford .
28 After a tour in February 1989 of Soviet psychiatric hospitals a US delegation reported that , although some improvements had been made , people were still hospitalized for political reasons and recommended that the Soviet Union should not be readmitted to the World Psychiatric Association ( WPA — for October 1989 Soviet readmission see p. 36980 ) .
29 Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 .
30 At least with the man , a urethritis can be diagnosed , albeit imperfectly , by noticing pus cells in the urethra , but the same criteria can not be applied to the woman .
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