Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not been called up as she had to care for her widowed mother and do a Civil Service job . |
| 2 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |
| 3 | Instead , it has been suggested that the object tends towards presentational form , which can not be broken up as though into grammatical sub-units , and as such it appears to have a particularly close relation to emotions , feelings and basic orientations to the world . |
| 4 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 5 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 6 | In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders . |
| 7 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 8 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 9 | We need to develop an understanding of Britain and Britishness in which racial and religious minorities can not be written off as being alien . ’ |
| 10 | Our nation 's culture is bound up in that philosophy , which can not be written off as looking backwards or day-dreaming — it is deeply ingrained in all of us . |
| 11 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 12 | It is arguable that the ratio decidendi of the case is limited solely to this principle , and can not be extended so as to include the neighbour principle . |
| 13 | Any such notice must state whether the current ( or preceding , when allowed ) reference period is to be shortened , so that it will end on the first occurrence of the accounting reference date , or lengthened , so that it will end on its second occurrence , but unless an administration order is in force the period can not be extended so as to exceed 18 months . |
| 14 | Ripon 's fixture secretary Andy Proud could not be contacted yesterday as he was en route from Paris . |
| 15 | Ripon 's fixture secretary Andy Proud could not be contacted yesterday as he was en route from Paris . |
| 16 | Hard and fast rules can not be laid down as each individual situation varies , but if nurses participate in discussion and role play , it can help them to have more confidence when they experience the real situation . |
| 17 | The underprovision of clinical and medical oncologists remote from the south east of England is real , and the disparity can not be passed off as being due to university and research commitments . |
| 18 | In that case , Lord Denning M.R. said that the ‘ severe financial hardship ’ condition , applying to courts of first instance only , should not be construed so as ‘ to exclude people of modest income or modest capital who find it hard to bear their own costs . |
| 19 | This non-reciprocal pattern of usage is closely linked with expectations that the younger person should not be held back as they make their way through an English-speaking educational system by an over-familiarity with Patwa . |
| 20 | Having regard to the objectives and the general scheme of the Convention , that it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 21 | Having regard to the objective and the general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 22 | As the court held with respect to the expression ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ used in article 5(1) ( see the judgments of 22 March 1983 in Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and of 8 March 1988 in Arcado [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 ) , having regard to the objectives and general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention of the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 23 | If this is not possible batteries should not be pulled out as hooked terminal segments may catch the springs and pull them out ( ruining the contact and rendering a none-too-cheap dealer repair necessary ) . |
| 24 | Mm , it is , but it 's still not being done well as |
| 25 | One senior umpire said : ‘ Don not being voted back as chairman had absolutely nothing to do with the uproar about the ball-changing . |
| 26 | And I made sure it was where it could n't be missed soon as she brought her cup out to the kitchen . |
| 27 | Things wo n't be done exactly as you would do them , not at first . |
| 28 | I thought he played excellently in our Championship year and although his confidence went completely after the punch at Ibrox , he ca n't be blamed totally as the whole defence ( except Dorigo in fairness ) did n't exactly help matters . |