Example sentences of "not be [vb pp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Attorney-General warned your Lordships that , even if reference in this case to Parliamentary materials did not infringe article 9 , the House of Commons might take the view the House enjoyed some wider privilege which we would be infringing and might well regret that its views on the point had not been sought before a decision was reached by your Lordships . |
| 2 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 3 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 4 | man Alan Reid said they had not been disciplined because a member of the Royal Family had been a patient there . |
| 5 | I repeat that , at this stage , Mr. Speaker 's Office has not been informed that a Minister wants to make a statement . |
| 6 | But because the correspondence between graphological and phonological features is far from precise , it can not be said that a writer has actually represented the speech style of a character . |
| 7 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 8 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
| 9 | that it can not be assumed that a paper print out of an electronic record from these systems is the same as the electronic version , on the grounds that the paper version does not bring with it the context that gives the information provenance and credibility . |
| 10 | It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme . |
| 11 | The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two . |
| 12 | In the type of market situation examined here , it can not be justified if a cost-leadership policy based on a belief in the experience curve is pursued . |
| 13 | There is therefore a risk that good items will not be accepted and a risk that bad quality items will be accepted . |
| 14 | There is therefore a risk that good items will not be accepted and a risk that bad quality items will be accepted . |
| 15 | The unique implication of this view is that associability will not be lost when a stimulus is followed by inconsistent consequences . |
| 16 | Third , it must not be overlooked that a doctor is a professional whose training predisposes him to ‘ save ’ lives and treat the sick . |
| 17 | A gamma spectrometer can not be used because a hole about 5 cm in diameter is required for the probe ; it is extremely hard work to drill the 1 cm hole needed for a capsule , and anything larger would be impossible ! |
| 18 | Such a process can not be described as a set of sub-activities connected by unidirectional communications . |
| 19 | Normally this should not be applied to 5 Star Maxplan or 4 Star policies , as this cover should not be provided where a business is run from the same building and the public have access . |
| 20 | Thus it can not be expected that a consideration of the species present in an assemblage will identify the predator responsible for bringing it together even for large sample sizes ( Mason & Macdonald , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | He also said that part of the deal would be that the IAAF would not be informed that a doping offence had taken place which , given that the athletes were suspended by the IAAF , suggested that Mr Emig was not fully conversant with international regulations . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking , it can not be shown that a behaviour pattern develops independently of experience ; only specific , identified factors may be ruled out . |
| 23 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |
| 24 | Mr McFarlane said a ‘ temporary ’ jetty , built to allow large pieces of plant to be delivered to the site , would not be dismantled before a decision was made on the C station . |
| 25 | It is clear that many Opposition Members , and possibly some Conservative Members , have received letters telling us that claims could not be paid because a bill board had been placed in the social security office . |