Example sentences of "not be [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 2 | With an estimated 18 million people actively walking , rambling and climbing , we should not be barred at the whims of a privileged few . |
| 3 | To glamorise the whole thing ( the car obviously could not be kept at the camp ) , it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage , possibly in Aston Clinton , which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton . |
| 4 | Although Rover will not be represented at the hearings , chairman Lord McCarthy says the Enquiry is valid . |
| 5 | Schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage of profit or the specified amount of the notional pool to be distributed as PRP depend on a formula that can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme ( p 103 ) . |
| 6 | Under a new Statement of Practice ( SP 7/92 ) , schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage or the specified amount of the notional pool depend on a formula which can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme . |
| 7 | " This would not be nibbling at the edges . |
| 8 | ‘ This one , ’ said Owen generously , looking down at him , ‘ may not be over-valued at the price . |
| 9 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 10 | Suggesting that the long-term viability of BC and its privatisation potential could be put at risk by curbs on open-cast operations , Mr Chance added : ‘ Mining communities can not be saved at the expense of the open-cast industry . |
| 11 | It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification . |
| 12 | Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole . |
| 13 | Unfortunately some measurements could not be made at the time of the growth room trials , owing to maintenance work . |
| 14 | The wasteful and destructive life-styles of the rich can not be maintained at the cost of the lives and livelihood of the poor , and of nature . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe Riven should not be seen at the feast tonight , ’ Murtach suggested . |
| 16 | You are further required as a condition of this appointment to accept that if the appointment is not renewed at the end of the period referred to then you would not be entitled to claim any redundancy payment under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or under any analogous provisions , should your appointment not be renewed at the end of the period referred to . |
| 17 | If completion accounts are required , it is common practice to require the relevant accountants to agree the apportionment at the time they agree the completion statement as the price will not be finalised at the time of contract . |
| 18 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 19 | Councillor Sullivan said the issue could not be raised at the council last night because the council was the body of his final appeal . |
| 20 | Councillor Sullivan said the issue could not be raised at the council last night because the council was the body of his final appeal . |
| 21 | Rights and wrongs of government planning policy which allowed permission to be granted for power stations without regard to transmission should not be raised at the inquiry . |
| 22 | but you might not be liked at the end of it |
| 23 | Resistance , grounded on a far deeper sense of the rights of conscience , the role of the laity and the fallibility of ecclesiastical authority than existed in pre-conciliar days , will not be overcome at the level of the clergy , the religious orders , the thinking laity or — above all — the theologians . |
| 24 | The maxim that life should not be extended at the cost of worsening it has an obvious appeal : it is also a gross over-simplification . |
| 25 | I know one thing I 'll not be eating at the buffet . |
| 26 | Secondly , it almost goes without saying that in real life people will not be presented at the point of sale with a neat , comparative ranking of ( say ) five different credit options , with one end of the scale of choice giving much better value than the other . |
| 27 | The implicit recognition of this in their work is obscured by the distinction they make between ‘ direct experience ’ and more ‘ abstract ’ ‘ underlying ’ causes which can not be grasped at the level of immediate experience . |
| 28 | Rob Engels , UK managing director , referred to the loss as ‘ minor ’ and said the blame could not be laid at the UK 's door as this subsidiary has exceeded its targets ; rather it is continental Europe that is down on its figures . |
| 29 | Plainly this confusion can not be laid at the door of the petitioner . |
| 30 | Blame can not be laid at the doorstep of any single photographer , designer , journalist or editor — this is not intended as a smug pop at our predecessors , nor a dig at individuals . |