Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It will not be desired to find all people who absent themselves without leave .
2 Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum .
3 If you find that you are making no gains in size whatsoever , do not be tempted to do more exercises or repetitions because this could lead to overtraining .
4 If the assessor is not involved in provision , they can take a more objective look at individual client need , be able to say whether some need is unmet , and not be tempted to offer those services for which they are responsible as the sole , potentially inappropriate solution to the client 's problems .
5 In the case of magistrates this was confirmed in Croydon LBC v N and Others [ 1987 ] 2 FLR 61 although the inherent jurisdiction can not be exercised to contravene any statutory provision , regulation or rule binding upon the court .
6 Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period .
7 In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction .
8 So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards .
9 And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty .
10 ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals .
11 In the case of s 48(2) ( h ) the argument outlined above , that the use of the word " enabling " impliedly authorises modification of the common law duty of disclosure since a person can not be enabled to do that which he is free to do , may nevertheless prevail .
12 The absence of a substantive right to a particular benefit should not lead to the conclusion that procedural rights are inapplicable , and the term legitimate expectation should not be manipulated to reach this end .
13 That is why self-conscious fictional experimentation like stream-of-consciousness tends in its social effects to be conservative , whatever its aspirations ; and the later fiction of Joyce and Virginia Woolf can not be seen to embody any serious proposal to change the world , or to represent a belief that the world could ever be changed .
14 Such changes in the power of the monarch have arisen , not through statute , but as a result of the convention that the monarch should not become politically involved and should not be seen to favour any one political party .
15 If you have n't got the skill you should not be asked to undertake that task until you are trained or supervised .
16 The Code was later amended to reflect the difficulty which had arisen in the case , which concerned the selection of an estranged parent as an ‘ appropriate adult ’ to be present during the interviewing of a juvenile : see now Code C Note 1C , which provides that an estranged parent should not be asked to fulfil this role if the juvenile objects to his presence .
17 You will not be asked to remove any clothing apart from your shoes .
18 It would be almost impossible to ban such remarks in a court of law , but there is no reason why a judge should not be empowered to say that , in an appropriate case , the name of the person maligned should not be repeated in the press .
19 In In re Leighton 's Conveyance [ 1937 ] Ch. 149 it was held by the Court of Appeal that a statutory provision providing that ‘ a poor person shall not be ordered to pay any costs ’ did not affect a mortgagee litigant 's right to add his litigation costs to the mortgage security .
20 ‘ Barbara must not be permitted to tell these stories . ’
21 You certainly had to be tough to live at Tullivers after the Admiral had gone , for Lucy Trigg , in her eighties , could not be bothered to have any domestic help , nor could she be bothered to light fires , to cook meals for herself , nor to clean the house and tend the garden .
22 Your card can not be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from Cashline machines .
23 If resources are to be used to increase pensions , should they not be used to target those in greatest need , rather than spreading across the board and benefiting both rich and poor ?
24 Locke finds the theory quite unworkable ; for example , it can not be used to justify any actual political authority , since it is impossible to show of any particular monarch that he is a genuine heir to Adam 's original authority .
25 First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet .
26 The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled .
27 But there are two other subsidiary matters which reinforce the conclusion that the council should not be required to give such an undertaking .
28 Provided that when goods are consigned ‘ carriage forward ’ the Trader shall not be required to pay such charges unless the consignee fails to pay after a reasonable demand has been made by the carrier for payment thereof .
29 Section 4 of the Act provides that a party to a contract who deals as a consumer can not be required to indemnify any other person against any liability that other may incur for negligence or breach of contract , unless the indemnity clause satisfies the test of reasonableness .
30 Very often there are schools , just across the road , full of children who will very probably become unemployed when they leave because they will not be equipped to fill any of the jobs that are available .
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