Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys and girls should not be on the road after dark . |
| 2 | The argument is clear : anti-insider dealing law is unenforceable ; an unenforceable law is a bad law ; bad law should not be on the statute books . |
| 3 | However , the accent should not be on censorship or prescription , but on the encouragement of an enlightened attitude to the treatment of race and sex in books . |
| 4 | Literature should not be on a self-service display . |
| 5 | Not all who reach midlife have parents still living , and those who do may not be on such happy terms with them . |
| 6 | Funerals are very special occasions in the Dales , when people who may not be on the friendliest of terms would forget their differences for a while and come and pay their respects . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a Type B non-profit might produce a series of Revenue Accounts ( which may or may not be on the ‘ income and expenditure ’ basis ) , a series of Balance Sheets , no overall Balance Sheet and no Cash Flow Statement . |
| 8 | Profits may not be on the agenda , but quality certainly is and Bob said : ‘ We get no favours nor do we want them . |
| 9 | Otherwise , whether we eventually accept or reject any particular religious belief , it may not be on the basis of understanding but of mis-understanding that we choose . |
| 10 | The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Lion might not be on this book list , but in the short sub-section of ‘ Finance and Government ’ were old conspiratorial favourites : F.J. Irsigier 's Who Makes Our Money ? , |
| 11 | There was then the suspense of waiting for it to come in , and my fear that we might not be on the right platform or that the Great Western had forgotten about it . |
| 12 | Shearer 's injury might not be on quite the same scale , but it will keep him out of qualifiers in Turkey next month , the Netherlands at home in April and the end-of-season double away to Poland on 29 May and Norway four days later . |
| 13 | Mervyn Whyte , secretary of the meeting told me today : ‘ At this point in time he 'll not be on the front row of the grid but Billy Nutt , the clerk of the course , and myself will be going through the speeds later today and deciding the grid positions . |
| 14 | Note that the vehicle need not be on a road at the time of the offence . |
| 15 | If there is , for example , an active regional policy , then regional issues need not be on the competition policy agenda . |
| 16 | If they were that common they would not be on page one of the paper . |
| 17 | ‘ If you let the pace drop you would not be on the pitch for very long . |
| 18 | The supply would not be on a tax invoice , so the buyer would not be able to reclaim the tax paid . |
| 19 | Inmates would not be on view . |
| 20 | If so , it would not be on the basis of contract ( there being no contractual bond ) nor on the basis of a duty of fidelity ( since the confider does not employ the employee ) , but on ‘ the broad principle of equity ’ . |
| 21 | She would not be on this earth much longer . |
| 22 | It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ . |
| 23 | In fact , there is a real chance that next season the England captain will not be on first-name terms with almost half of his team . |
| 24 | Back will not be on the England squad plane to Lanzarote on Thursday morning , and a number of experienced internationals will be relieved . |
| 25 | Because of the delicacy of the pigments and potential damage if exposed for too long to light , the papyrus will not be on continuous show . |
| 26 | Piotr Skubiszewski 's forthcoming contribution to the series ‘ Storia Universale dell'Arte ’ , the volumes on Western civilisation edited by Enrico Castelnuovo , will not be on the shelves until 1993 . |
| 27 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 28 | The focus here , however , will not be on these issues of politics and crime prevention . |
| 29 | As very few records will not be on their home tracks , this procedure is extremely efficient . |
| 30 | The full Register will not be on public display , but an extract of the Register , showing only initials , surnames and addresses , will be available for inspection . |