Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] not [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Relational will not just be phased out .
2 The experience in the United States can not necessarily be extrapolated to the United Kingdom .
3 Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended .
4 If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find …
5 As a general-purpose hot air gun , the Peugeot can not really be faulted .
6 The conscript troops of the MVD could not entirely be blamed for the ill fit of their uniforms , for their slouched shoulders , for their callow and chilled faces .
7 However , Cameron 's companion Kathryn Bigelow will not now be directing the film of another Gibson short , New Rose Hotel .
8 Katharine wo n't actually be making any speeches on his behalf but she does have some tips for the Prime Minister .
9 Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche .
10 However , a significant contribution to the internal magnetic dipole moment from liquid iron and other materials nearer the centre of Jupiter can not quite be ruled out .
11 The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance .
12 What she had now with Adam could n't even be called a relationship , she acknowledged ruefully .
13 It was the submission of the appellant , B. & Q. , that your Lordships were bound to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice , whereas the respondent councils submitted that , following the Conforama and Marchandise decisions , the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. could not possibly be disturbed so that no reference was required .
14 Even Parr ca n't still be smiling after that !
15 THE success of Tendring District Council 's bid for assisted area status for Clacton and Harwich will not now be known until next month .
16 With the Rothschild report on the coal industry still gaining currency with its prospect of just 12–14 deep pits , Heseltine will not necessarily be toasted throughout industry .
17 If she had still been in love with Finn , Lydia would not now be casting round for ways to entertain herself .
18 Wear can not therefore be simulated by just sand-blasting the whole object , nor even by concentrating on the vulnerable parts with a coarse file .
19 In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed .
20 For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford .
21 Under Ulster 's prison laws Christie will not now be released until the end of 1995 at the earliest .
22 The Treasury inisted last night that Mr Major would not normally be expected to attend .
23 Despite conciliatory moves by Thakin Nu , and earnest pleas from Listowel , the Karens could not even be brought to agree among themselves .
24 six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system .
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