Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And we have not been asked to see any patients specifically to help social workers ' assessments .
2 If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency .
3 At the time of writing , this section had not been used to exclude any children with learning difficulties or disabilities .
4 The delay in Britain would have been greater had long-wait specialities such as skin disease not been excluded to allow inter-country comparisons , Dr Douglas Fleming , head of the college 's Birmingham unit , said last night .
5 Intravenous infusion of ethanol has not been shown to release measurable amounts of somatostatin but this does not exclude the possibility that somatostatin may mediate the inhibitory effect on the parietal cells .
6 As the different alcoholic beverages have not been shown to cause different diseases it is possible that alcohol itself is the most harmful component of the beverages .
7 This is that , except in very special cases , injunctive relief will not be granted to restrain threatened breaches of the criminal law before they are committed .
8 If you find that you are making no gains in size whatsoever , do not be tempted to do more exercises or repetitions because this could lead to overtraining .
9 If the assessor is not involved in provision , they can take a more objective look at individual client need , be able to say whether some need is unmet , and not be tempted to offer those services for which they are responsible as the sole , potentially inappropriate solution to the client 's problems .
10 If we seek historically aware performances in this repertory , should we not be seeking to make informed decisions about tempos and their relationships ( and consequent effects on inequality ) by considering the available evidence of mensural traditions , time-words and notated timings , rather than ignoring it ?
11 Both Lyons and Ochs stress that context must not be understood to exclude linguistic features , since such features often invoke the relevant contextual assumptions ( a point made nicely by Gumperz ( 1977 ) who calls such linguistic features contextualization cues ) .
12 ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals .
13 However , absence of a specific DNA binding activity could not be demonstrated using nuclear extracts of RJ2.2.5 ( 2,3,18 ) .
14 Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity .
15 Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity .
16 It may also lead the population at large to believe that , as there is no real chance , money should not be wasted to counteract genetic limitations .
17 In In re Leighton 's Conveyance [ 1937 ] Ch. 149 it was held by the Court of Appeal that a statutory provision providing that ‘ a poor person shall not be ordered to pay any costs ’ did not affect a mortgagee litigant 's right to add his litigation costs to the mortgage security .
18 ‘ Barbara must not be permitted to tell these stories . ’
19 Serial files can not be used to access particular records from within the file quickly and easily .
20 The authority was opposed to the use of the equipment by its force and was ‘ very concerned that such weapons should not be used to quell public demonstrations or riots because of the likelihood of serious personal injury or death thereby resulting to individuals ’ .
21 They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared .
22 However , this analysis is important in showing that it is not rational expectations itself which produces the result that monetary policy can not be used to stabilize real variables in the economy ; rather , it is the combination of rational expectations and a particular class of model .
23 There are plenty of army officers , by no means all of them supporters of radical causes , who think the army should not be used to settle political arguments with the republics .
24 Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value .
25 I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas .
26 The results must not be used to justify wildly-exaggerated claims , which should be resisted until the implications of this non-locality are explored further .
27 The legitimate aim of raising the consciousness and expectations of old women must not be used to deny old women the right to determine their own future and lifestyles ( Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 , p. 237 ) .
28 Measurements at a single site can not be used to calculate global changes .
29 Therefore certain of the data shown ( 16:1 7c , 16:1 7 t , 18:1 7 c , 18:1 9 c ) can not be used to identify particular components of the microbial population .
30 It has subsequently been a convention that the royal family may not be used to puff commercial products , even ( indeed , especially ) by royal warrant-holders .
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