Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There must not be space for the ferret to get around the outside of the cage and remain free .
2 Spitting on people should not be part of the game .
3 And I object to it , as I consider that O S fields seven three six five and six eight six two with the land extending westwards to the A Nineteen , should not be part of the Skelton inset area .
4 The Royal Commission on Legal Services concluded that this sort of work should not be part of the responsibilities of the citizens ' law centres that were proposed .
5 Also the meeting was not a year ago as your report states , but only this month and we do n't say that Thornaby should not be part of Stockton borough .
6 I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone .
7 Give your fish a close visual inspection : flukes should not be problem at this time of year , but you may have introduced anchor worm ( Lernaea ) or fish lice ( Argulus ) with new stock … no dealer worth his salt would sell infested fish without first having dealt with these parasites , but it happens .
8 Due to a number of circumstances Amy feels she should not be treasurer for nineteen ninety one .
9 This should not be cause for alarm , however .
10 Objection should not be objection by implication or common usage .
11 Having arrived at some form of equilibrium , Bukharin was concerned that this should not be equilibrium with ‘ negative indications ’ , but one that would have mobile growth without cataclysmic consequences .
12 I mean , that 's no reason , but we should n't be sort of saying , well look let's not , lets all not do this booklet now
13 that it 's barely worth their while to erm to employ try and get rid of them by doing that er which er which means that there should n't be redistribution of land that much and therefore
14 Depressive illness can result in suicidal thoughts and there may or may not be expression of intent .
15 Even this may not be contract for the sale of specific goods .
16 Although ‘ in-depth ’ may not be part of Howard Barker 's vocabulary , I am sure he believes his play is far from superficial .
17 It can also thus be the entrée into a further development : Hilton stresses that this may not be part of the natural development of his particular correspondent .
18 They share a natural empathy with the concerns of that class which , as we have noted , may not be redistribution towards the less well off .
19 I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’
20 The idea of decentralization to departmental units of accountable management not only undermines the hierarchical authority structure traditionally used in bureaucracies to enforce equitable application of departmental rules ( see p. 26 ) , but its underlying aim , as Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 157 ) warn , ‘ may be to downgrade … the search for fairness and equity of treatment … since such practices may not be value for money ’ , In the private sector , where equity is less important ( and in some cases absent ) , the search for value for money conflicts with no particular value systems , but in the public sector it does .
21 The growing interest in such books is a belated acknowledgment by westerners that the philosophical side of martial arts may not be tosh after all .
22 There might not be money for Frederick Bissett 's salary or funds enough to supply him with badly needed back-up , but by God , oh yes , there was money for the building programme .
23 There might not be space for two , and I could hardly turn the other man out now .
24 the tape recording of individual children 's oral performance for assessment purposes might not be part of normal classroom activity and thus not in line with TGAT recommendations .
25 In all three cases , the responses to the public consultation revealed concern that trusts might not be part of the NHS and that services might be fragmented .
26 ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’
27 But she would still be a traitor to grief , watching and listening , even as she spoke the formal words of condolence , for the flicker of an eyelid , the tensing of hands and face muscles , for the unwise word , for any sign that for someone in that waiting house in Campden Hill Square this might not be news at all .
28 It might not be bedtime by St Lucian standards , but second on her list of essentials , after the long cold drink , was a cool shower , and a long , long lie down .
29 Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all .
30 I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position .
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