Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , that the appeal with which the Board is concerned is that brought by special leave from the decision of Barnett J. Secondly , whilst their Lordships fully understand why the Court of Appeal should have wished to state its opinion on the questions argued , any observations concerning the merits of an appeal which should not be before the court must necessarily be extra-judicial . |
| 2 | She should n't be but how else would she get home ? |
| 3 | Well no she should n't be but since going she just suddenly appeared did n't she ? |
| 4 | Well that should n't be when it 's his cheque should it . |
| 5 | It should n't be and I think it 's a very sad reflection on the human race that it often is . ’ |
| 6 | I I find that I am assertive whereas at times I should n't be in fact most of the time I should n't be and I am |
| 7 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 8 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 9 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 10 | It may or may not be that decisions and the like are in fact standard effects . |
| 11 | 13.3.2 by or to the Tenant may be given or made by or to the Tenant 's solicitors on behalf of the Tenant The only point to make is to ensure that any notices to be served on the tenant will be certain to be received , which they may not be if served at the premises . |
| 12 | If I do n't make a Will , then the distribution of what you possess when you die may not be as you would wish . |
| 13 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 14 | Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here . |
| 15 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 16 | We would hope that that has been defined er by somebody of the hierarchy but , if we 're moving onto new work areas , it might not The sequence maybe self-evident but it may not be and it would be nice to have it written down . |
| 17 | In the confined environment of pre-school life the infant may have appeared to be progressing normally , and it may not be until an objective screening test is given that the sight problem is recognised . |
| 18 | However , puberty affects values and beliefs so much that it may not be until the mid-twenties that we can ask realistically what career priorities a person has . |
| 19 | A strong gatekeeper role will limit sales access to influencers and decision takers in the way laid down by company policy , and it may not be until that policy is changed that an individual supplier may be permitted sales access to present his wares . |
| 20 | ‘ It might not be but it 's the godalmighty truth , ’ he asserted so playfully back that the whole table laughed . |
| 21 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 22 | you might not be but I am |
| 23 | It might be that the subject noun and verb phrase go together to form a constituent , so you have Florence teased Dougal or the structure might not be that it might just be three separate constituents with no firm structure forming a further constituent , so why that structure ? |
| 24 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 25 | If you have entered many competitions and never won a thing , this might not be because your work is poor . |
| 26 | If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more . |
| 27 | I 've rather doubt that he might not be and , and then Bert er , has very kindly said that he would erm , stand in for him to second this resolution . |
| 28 | ‘ But what looks good might not be and we can only speculate . |
| 29 | but you had a eight to finish with which is finishing and a one , two , three might not be and a better run so I think I would have been tempted to finish with the ace flush there try and stop me rather than trying to win it cos you had nothing else did you ? |
| 30 | It might not be cos you might have got the formula wrong and you 've got every one of them wrong but it 's usually a good sign . |