Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] not be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
| 2 | Even though your settlement may not be in a known danger area , no one can be sure . |
| 3 | And if I ca n't , can I begin to entertain the thought that teaching may not be for me ( as a substantial number of new teachers do ) without feeling guilty or a failure ? |
| 4 | Reassignment should not be in itself a cause of discrimination . |
| 5 | Literature should not be on a self-service display . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Labour may not be in the business of re-connecting with the past , but its attachment to the future is still confused . |
| 8 | A patient who believes his delusional thinking may not be in a position to give an informed refusal of medication , because he does not believe he is ill . |
| 9 | Because one of President Nicolae Ceausescu 's many titles is that of chairman of the National Defence Council , and his brother , General Ilie Ceausescu , is head of political administration for the forces , the loyalty of the high command may not be in doubt , but morale in the ranks is low . |
| 10 | The independent contractor may not be within the reach of the paragraph . |
| 11 | With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use . |
| 12 | Also even after quoting for certain deliveries , that carrier may not be in a position to do the haulage just when required . |
| 13 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |
| 14 | This thinking should not be in abstraction but in writing . |
| 15 | At the time that Offline initiates the offline workload , this Operator Terminal must not be in use by any other process . |
| 16 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 17 | This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely … |
| 18 | And thereupon their Majestyes were pleased that the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons being the two Houses of Parlyament should continue to sitt and with their Majesty 's Roy all concurrence make effectuall provision for the settlement of the religion lawes and liberties of this king dome soe that the same for the future might not be in danger againe of being subverted , to which the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons did agree and proceede to act accordingly . |
| 19 | By s.21(1) , above , the gain or loss need not be for the accused or to the victim . |
| 20 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 21 | This ensures that anyone touching any wiring on the output side of the mains transformer will not be in contact with the mains wiring , and that ( providing the secondary is a low voltage winding ) they can not receive a severe electric shock . |
| 22 | Boundedness is not necessarily a quality of the process of institution itself : the same process or institution will not be beyond the boundary to those who are a part of it ; to them , it will be a part of everyday experience , while to others , not a part of it , it will be beyond the boundaries of home-ground . |
| 23 | ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5 ) ( a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : |
| 24 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If Flashman does n't get out , then I have no doubt the club will not be in existence this time next year . ‘ |
| 26 | .. ’ Mortimer confesses that he thinks Labour wo n't be near large enough to form the next government . |
| 27 | John Lee Hooker wo n't be with us forever , however much we 'd like him to be . |
| 28 | There 's no wind and a boat can not be in danger . |
| 29 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 30 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |