Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the result of tomorrow night 's game with Grimsby at Ayresome Park , Boro 's destiny will not be decided until around 4.40pm on Saturday . |
| 2 | Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary . |
| 3 | However , small foci of tumour within an area of fibrosis may be undetectable on MRI , which means that the technique can not be regarded as completely reliable . |
| 4 | The theses that Latin American socio-economic structures could not be regarded as simply a local variant of European feudalism , and that the agrarian economy was already incorporated into the capitalist system were restated and developed , and the argument that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist reasserted . |
| 5 | They should not be regarded as simply a last resort , but involved in the consultation process surrounding possible action to prevent risk to employees . |
| 6 | However , since the decision in Fowler v. Lanning , which held that in an action for unintentional trespass to the person the plaintiff must prove negligence on the part of the defendant the same may be true of cases of trespass to goods , though the matter can not be regarded as finally settled . |
| 7 | As for polyunsaturated fats , these are a preferable substitute in our diet , but even they should not be regarded as totally beneficial . |
| 8 | While it is possible that the missionary who baptized in the River Glen was the Briton , Rhun , and that Bede was mistaken when he located Paulinus at Yeavering , the statement about Rhun in the Historia Brittonum , inserted as it is in a somewhat garbled account seemingly extrapolated from the Ecclesiastical History , can not be regarded as undoubtedly signifying this and it is uncertain what weight can be attached to it . |
| 9 | These three treatment options should not be regarded as mutually exclusive ; rather , their relative roles should be tailored to the needs of the individual patient . |
| 10 | This sentence is therefore more specific than [ 3 ] , and can not be regarded as entirely equivalent in sense . |
| 11 | In its annual report of 1938 the Committee stated that ‘ the existing scale of benefits can not be regarded as so fully meeting needs as to make it undesirable to raise them further ’ and continued , ‘ if … the wage system made allowance for dependency , the main objection to further increase in the rates of benefit would be removed ’ ( Quoted in Green , 1938 ) . |
| 12 | The NCMD should not be regarded as merely a means to obtain sites and impress councils or other bodies . |
| 13 | Finally , a word 's syntactic and semantic properties can not be accessed until all ( or most ) of its acoustic material has been processed . |
| 14 | The student will find that all ‘ added 6ths ’ can not be arranged as above . |
| 15 | The depravity of apartheid is such that even movie executives should feel comfortable that their projects will not be side-lined as too ‘ political ’ , or ‘ radical ’ . |
| 16 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 17 | Although the research was mainly qualitative , the views can not be dismissed as merely those of a ‘ more able ’ or of an ‘ indoctrinated ’ minority . |
| 18 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 19 | I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ . |
| 20 | Maastricht deals directly with its problem by giving new powers and scrutiny to the European Parliament which means that decisions can not be made unless both Council and Parliament agree . |
| 21 | for some the high cost of machinery could not be justified when only relatively small areas were being cropped and contractors were not readily available . |
| 22 | The 1988 Urban Programme can not be seen as dramatically different from the approach inherited by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 23 | But he also argues that this should not be seen as automatically implying drudgery and oppression for women . |
| 24 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 25 | Since aesthetic values are informed by a range of economic , social , and cultural values , literary choices can not be seen as wholly separate from broader systems of value . |
| 26 | His complaint need not be seen as so far-reaching . |
| 27 | But these two functions should not be seen as entirely discrete . |
| 28 | The provision of musical instruments in church should not be seen as solely for the accompaniment and embellishment of singing , but also for solo and ensemble playing before , during or after a service . |
| 29 | An inspection of the table reveals overlaps between the three trends , and clearly they should not be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 30 | Their political activities may not be perceived as very significant and useful by the bulk of the membership . |