Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] not be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It may or may not be of significance that the Oxford English Dictionary can find no instance of the word ‘ pornography ’ being used before 1864 ( in a decade , it may be noted , which also saw a generalised use of the term ‘ capitalism ’ ) . |
2 | The situation in which a sexual problem is " masked " by a non-sexual presenting problem which may or may not be of true significance is not uncommon . |
3 | They frequently have to deal with awkward and unpleasant problems which may or may not be of their own making . |
4 | Extensive microbiological evaluation obviously increases the number of abnormalities detected ; however , these may or may not be of pathogenic relevance as also indicated by the persistence of symptoms after eradication of several infective agents reported by others . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
7 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
8 | They are also influenced by individual employees , whose standards may or may not be in line with those of the official organization . |
9 | So until that comes out I can not actually confirm what may or may not be in that manifesto . |
10 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
11 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
12 | In addition , there was the set of Hardnut 's Cathedral keys which might or might not be with Wheeler . |
13 | This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes . |
14 | Unregistered foals could be worth less and may not be worth breeding for sale . |
15 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
16 | The DC must already exist and must not be in the ‘ in approval ’ or ‘ approved ’ state . |
17 | The DC to be aborted must already exist and must not be in the state IN APPROVAL or APPROVED . |
18 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
19 | This shows total disrespect to the king because openly implies that he is weak and foolish and should not be in his position of power . |
20 | Therefore he needed to be in London and could not be in Cuddesdon . |
21 | Palace have won just once in the Premier League all season and could not be in worse shape to face Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup as they attempt to exorcise the haunting memory of their 9-0 Anfield thrashing in 1989 . |
22 | Unlike Hobbes , however , he allows that ideas or concepts can be general , universal , or abstract , and need not be of particulars . |
23 | Dry areas would no longer absorb energy , and would not be at risk from the high local power-input . |
24 | Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them . |
25 | Although North Korea was widely thought to have the technical expertise to produce nuclear weapons , many experts concluded that it would not have sufficient stocks of plutonium for a viable weapon until 1992 , and would not be in position to test such a device until 1995 . |
26 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
27 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
28 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
29 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered by but need not be in numerical order . |
30 | He says he plans to be in Dundee today but will not be at the picket — and rejected accusations by MPs and others of outsiders interfering in the dispute . |