Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] not [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
2 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
3 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
4 | Emma had taught her to read before school , and now the chest was piled with golden and rose fairy books , Winnie the Pooh , Alice in Wonderland , and other things which perhaps Ruth did not yet grasp or should not yet be reading : Lord of the Flies , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , Cleopatra . |
5 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
6 | The problems listed above — and others — are real ones and may not easily be overcome . |
7 | If there is any general view in any quarter that the interest on special damages is in any event to be calculated at half-rate , when the losses do not continue from accident to trial , then I think that this is wrong and should not hereafter be followed . |
8 | ‘ We must demonstrate to youngsters that science and technology can in their many ways find the answers and should not always be viewed as the culprit . ’ |
9 | The moral debate about what should be defined as crime is a debate about what we think is undesirable , and should not therefore be tolerated . |
10 | Alex , from his position in the wings , was not concentrating as much and could not easily be kept informed about when they were stopping and starting , going back to rehearse lighting changes and so on , with the result that he was often feeding the wrong words . |
11 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
12 | If so , an ethical statement made by me would be true , and could not reasonably be challenged by others , if I have the feelings in question . |
13 | Examples include a driver being stung by bees , having an epileptic fit or loss of control because of a latent defect provided the driver did not and could not reasonably be expected to know of the defect . |
14 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
15 | This is simply because the supplier did not know , and could not reasonably be expected to know , of this potential contract . |
16 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
17 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
18 | of the vessel 's crew , irrespective of their nationality , to reside ashore in the member state in question was irrelevant to the aim of the quota system and could not therefore be justified by that aim . |
19 | But it was not the same as any of them , and could not seriously be dismissed as anti-black or anti-woman by anyone who took the trouble to find out the facts ; after all , as FAMILY was fond of pointing out , one of its founders was a woman of Pakistani origin ! |
20 | The government in return regretted that its offer had already been terminated and could not now be revived . |
21 | The streets were in a dip and could n't easily be seen from the estate . |
22 | You were out of the office , you were at a meeting , you were with an important client and could n't possibly be disturbed . ’ |
23 | The products and services provided by these graduate entrepreneurs are diverse in nature and need not necessarily be related to their educational backgrounds or degree subjects . |
24 | It follows that the cost of the alterations to the present home was a reasonable one to be born by the defendant and need not further be considered . |
25 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
26 | The rooms were hollow about her , unresponsive , as though , resentful of her absence , they had returned to desuetude and would not lightly be chivvied back . |
27 | In an ASCII format , documents are displayed in their lowest form on screen and ca n't easily be read . |
28 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ said the young boxer on the TV screen . |
29 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ the voice said . |
30 | Hence , corporate groups can continue to exist with separable SBUs and will not inevitably be broken up . |