Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The teaching need not be limited to English or British History , and lessons on citizenship may be given with advantage in the higher classes .
2 The teaching need not be limited to English or British History , and lessons on citizenship may be given with advantage in the higher classes .
3 This point should not be pushed to perversity : the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse , and it certainly is not being quickly corrected .
4 If Italian politicians can not be moved to action by protests from within their own country , it is up to us outside Italy to turn on the pressure in the world media .
5 However , the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action .
6 Heysel occurred at a ground so dilapidated it would not be cleared to stage Fourth Division matches in this country .
7 She leaned closer to Alice , so that Alice could smell a warm perfume , reminiscent of a flower , the name of which could not be called to mind .
8 Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors .
9 It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators .
10 The first was that fine defaulters should not be sent to prison ; but very few are .
11 They can not be sent to prison — at least not yet .
12 However , the number of self-injuries identified in Edinburgh through referrals to the Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre may have been an underestimate of the total number of cases referred to hospital ( Kreitman 1977 ) , and , in addition , a high proportion of patients with self-injuries may not be referred to hospital at all ( Kennedy and Kreitman 1973 ) .
13 Indeed , many would not be sentenced to custody on conviction .
14 High priority can not be given to presubmission enquiries ; in urgent cases they can be made in the form of a one-page fax .
15 On May 30 after government discussions on the fuel industry , it was announced that prices for energy would not be raised to world prices as sought by the IMF because of fears of rising social tension .
16 The senate decreed that B could not be asked to institute C heir : yet it appeared that in this way A had asked that B should make over A 's estate to C , that is to make over to him whatever B had obtained from A 's estate .
17 Its nuclear establishments and their facilities such as the reactors and hot cells can not be decommissioned to greenfield status in the short term .
18 The tiles ' adhesive tabs should not be applied to wallpaper — an remnants must be removed from the area to be covered .
19 The general technique for converting an equation valid for SR into one valid in all frames , namely replacing normal derivatives by covariant derivatives , can not be applied to gravitation .
20 In those circumstances , difficulties should not be caused to member states which defended themselves against practices designed to circumvent the quota system by determining in accordance with international law the criteria on whose basis they granted vessels the right to fly their flag .
21 Many have , and will , continue to argue that the private sector model can not be transferred to health care .
22 In future its aircraft will not be connected to passenger jetties during maintenance and the airline may employ full-time security teams to guard planes before boarding .
23 Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use .
24 The conclusion to the argument will be that there is a specific form of violence of a political kind outside of state control which can not be reduced to crime .
25 Tender herbs should be gradually accustomed to lower temperatures before planting outdoors , and in any case should not be subjected to frost .
26 On 11 May 1992 the wife , Frances Butler , gave notice to the husband , Robert Butler , to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for breaches of an order dated 12 September 1991 prohibiting him from entering or visiting premises where she lived and from assaulting , molesting or harassing her .
27 The rationale of treatment should be explained fully , reassuring the patient that she will not be confined to bed , subjected to high doses of drugs , or isolated from her family and friends .
28 A Design Change ( DC ) which is in the state CREATED ( state 1 ) can not be submitted to LIFESPAN for assessment without at least one module name being listed on PAGE 3 of the DC form .
29 And of course that epithet should not be restricted to science ; it is even possible to tolerate its importation into fields such as theology , and street walking in Darlington .
30 There is no reason why the same multiple-ostinato usage could not be adapted to serialism , with the same lucid results .
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