Example sentences of "it [vb mod] not [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.

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1 Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days .
2 At one place he described the statement ‘ physics has higher verisimilitude than astrology ’ as plausible and asks why it should not be accepted as long as no serious alternative is offered .
3 The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms .
4 It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose .
5 Thus education was to be productive of a ‘ good ’ , politically respectable State ; but it must not be seen as instrumental in any narrow or vocational way .
6 I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ?
7 That actually means something — it 's not frivolous — so consequently it ca n't be classed as , or even thought of as , old fashioned . ’
8 In this case , Savory alleged that the doctrine of constructive notice was not relevant to this type of commercial transaction and on the facts it would not be regarded as having known that the £13.5m was trust money belonging to Eagle .
9 It will not be filled as full later so if it can withstand the water pressure when full , it will be safe .
10 But members of the fund-raising committee now believe it will not be run as they had hoped .
11 ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided .
12 In the absence of clear words , however , it will not be interpreted as excluding the manufacturer 's liability to the wholesaler for negligence ( i.e. under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson , see paragraph 9–04 above ) .
13 Whilst , therefore , the criterion of the owner 's nationality is consistent with a fairly widespread international practice , it can not be regarded as forming part of customary international law .
14 ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract .
15 ( f ) Parker LJ stated : " whatever R v Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Lawrence 's case that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and …
16 From them it goes to manufacturing engineers , who , as like as not , discover that it can not be built as designed so far , and that the whole process must start again .
17 Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established .
18 The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ .
19 However , the bare infinitive is also found after how , and although this construction is far less frequent than the one with to , it can not be dismissed as nonce usage since fifteen cases have come to light thus far .
20 Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event .
21 For these and other reasons , it can not be taken as axiomatic that the most extreme threats are the most effective .
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