Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] not [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the meats in this category may not immediately be labelled as sausages in your mind , but this is where they fit in the standard delicatessen classification .
2 Mr Birt 's display of candour and remorse has not stopped the seepage , leaving the vague impression the whole story may not yet be known .
3 Co-operation and co-ordination should not therefore be restricted to the library sector — it should reach out .
4 It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question , even though the decision might be wrong .
5 Although the final result may not not be known until mid-morning , computer predictions indicated Mr Major was on his way back to Downing Street with a small majority .
6 While you may be perfectly willing to hand over authority this action may not always be received with enthusiasm .
7 His conception of civil association as a form of moral association and his idea of jus of lex should not therefore be viewed rationalistically .
8 News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers .
9 Who could tell whether the rout might not merely be accelerated , turning into a complete collapse and unbarring the most direct approach to Paris ?
10 The second , however , has not been seen in our study or in others and could be related to the possibility that gastric acid secretion might not necessarily be raised when NSAIDs are taken on longterm basis , three years in this study .
11 Unlike coffee , tea could not easily be grown profitably on smallholdings .
12 By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers .
13 Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate .
14 Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 .
15 This staggering figure could not easily be explained away .
16 Er but the most characteristic kind of war er our i is rather limited war a and violence need not necessarily be expressed in the form of erm a formal attack , it can be used of course to threaten or to deter .
17 ‘ He said the rent would not necessarily be raised in future after stating that it would be index-linked and he also wants to stage concerts and fetes at the ground in the close season when we would need to work on the pitch . ’
18 More specifically , the model of responsible party government carried within itself the view that the electorate would not just be informed about politics but would vote for the party which has a programme of policies in accord with their own view as to how things should be .
19 In the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view , long-term , exclusive fostering would not necessarily be deplored , although there may be a wish to see it achieve the more secure legal status of custodianship or adoption .
20 However , it has been said in the context of applications for judicial review of decisions of bodies exercising powers to regulate takeovers that a remedy would not normally be given until after the takeover process was complete .
21 The occasional millionaire comes along , like Sir John Hall , but putting money into a football club would not exactly be recommended by any financial adviser .
22 The Revenue will not subsequently be bound by any information or statements given , whether expressly or implicitly in relation to the claim .
23 Thus , a statutory provision allowing recourse to an alternative remedy will not readily be interpreted as requiring the alternative redress to be sought at the expense of an application to a court .
24 A pressed flower card can not only be enjoyed with the others but can then be framed and hung as a picture ( see pp. 130–1 ) .
25 Where the future can not usefully be predicted , it makes sense for policymakers to assume the worse and plan for heavy demands on services by the very old .
26 He conceded that the mind can not directly be forced to assent to a proposition , but held that penal laws can break the weight of intellectual prepossession .
27 ABOVE With a furlong to run the favourite Honey End is still in hot pursuit of Foinavon , but the shock result can not now be averted .
28 The points distribution is not significantly different from a horizontal line and a relation between the villus height and the body weight can not therefore be considered in this body weight range .
29 Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry
30 The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them .
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