Example sentences of "not be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the capital receipt money goes , not all , it 's not been possible to spend all of that this year because the development of some of these urban traffic calming schemes is actually very complicated and we 've had to re-think some of them . |
| 2 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 3 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 5 | Even in a country like India , where there is skilled manpower , it has not been easy to install enough new factories to keep pace with growing demand . |
| 6 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 7 | In other pre-modern cultures , however , it has not been usual to give all this information . |
| 8 | While programmers have not been able to do that the results they have achieved suggest that this may not be such a good idea . |
| 9 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 10 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 11 | I have not been able to do more than suggest the rough outline of this approach . |
| 12 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 13 | Others have not been able to confirm this association . |
| 14 | I have not been able to purchase any more — it seems to be short supply . |
| 15 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 16 | With × 20 it is easy , though I have not been able to obtain any definite resolution into stars without using a telescope . |
| 17 | It was later admitted by the men that " unfortunately , in that treaty , they had not been able to obtain any particular conditions " for women . |
| 18 | At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti . |
| 19 | True , Edward 's failure on the expedition of 1359–60 ( when he had not been able to capture either Reims , where kings of France were crowned , or Paris , the capital ) meant that he had to forego the important territorial concessions made to him in 1359 , including Normandy and the Angevin lands in central-western France . |
| 20 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 21 | As far as the building itself is concerned , Hulten has not been able to exert much influence on a project conceived some seven years ago , but he professes to be satisfied with the structure , describing it as ‘ generous ’ . |
| 22 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 23 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 24 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 25 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 26 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 27 | Indeed , so far he had not been able to discover any previous relationship at all between Zoser and the Zikr . |
| 28 | But we have not been able to discover any contact they had in common . ’ |
| 29 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 30 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |