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

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1 Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again .
2 It 's celebrated in the schools with er , my school children always acknowledge it , so it may not actually be celebrated within the family as such , but it 's certainly acknowledged .
3 It should not however be supposed that because of the equitable nature of these rights a bona fide purchaser for value will be protected .
4 It should not however be criticised because of its attempt to relate the gospel as directly as possible to the world in which we live .
5 This probably reflects the effect of high male mortality rates resultant from the major wars and it should not therefore be assumed that future cohorts of elderly will continue to illustrate this extreme gender imbalance .
6 Or do they say that , because the police behaved badly , the confession is , as a result , unreliable or unfair and it should not therefore be entered in evidence ?
7 It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes .
8 But , as it was built , it should not now be demolished .
9 As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland .
10 So He made a tiny egg , so small that it could not even be seen , and a little room , on purpose for it to grow in , right inside the mother 's body .
11 It could not properly be interpreted as leaving a gap where that unusual situation arose .
12 Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions .
13 ( iv ) If the right to sue in libel should be extended to a local government authority it could not logically be withheld from any government authority having separate legal personality .
14 As I said , Goreng had to shoot some after a desertion so large that it could not possibly be ascribed to the category of MIAS .
15 He was not certain of the exact meaning of the word , but he knew without doubt that it could not possibly be applied to him .
16 Of a worship service in which no mention was made of Christ , the bible was not read , and no reference made to God 's dealings with the people of Israel or of the early church , we might well say that it was theistic ( if mention was made of God ) , but it could not rightly be called Christian .
17 We have already said , that of a liturgy in which no mention was made of Christ , we might hold that it was meaningful , even theistic , but that it could not rightly be called Christian .
18 Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) .
19 It could not therefore be said that the defendant was assuming any rights . "
20 Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length .
21 Although all but one HIV test were negative such low active follow-up in any other study would be such that it would not even be considered for publication .
22 By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills .
23 An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) .
24 It would not normally be expected to change more than twice a year .
25 It would not normally be expected to change more than twice a year .
26 New Forum tried to take the Politburo up on its offer to talk , and again demanded legal status so that it would not constantly be accused of subversion .
27 She told herself , it would not really be doing something for Andrée if it did not come hard .
28 I have in fairness to say that there is no hard evidence for this ; but it seems possible that if such a case of misidentification had occurred , it would not readily be admitted .
29 It will not normally be affected by the setting of the current limit control ( VR1 ) unless the circuit has begun to ‘ current limit ’ .
30 It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials .
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