Example sentences of "not [adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When prisoners are released and return home , the institutional defences can not easily be given up . |
| 2 | Although most departments have drawn up plans , many areas of departmental work can not easily be broken down into discrete cost centres . |
| 3 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 4 | He made no attempt to play down Russia 's problems , including ‘ decades of under-investment and wrongly directed investment … industrial dinosaurs that can not easily be slimmed down and taught tricks … huge deficiencies in basic infrastructure , and … some horrendous environmental problems . ’ |
| 5 | Relational will not just be phased out . |
| 6 | Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate . |
| 7 | They are also exploring with solvency regulators the possibility of advancing current-year profits , which would not normally be paid out until 1996 — perhaps up to 5% of names ' underwriting limits . |
| 8 | for example a survey of hospital staff would not usually be carried out by selecting names at random from the total staff list , it might concentrate on doctors , nurses or cleaners only , or might sample medical , paramedical , administrative and support staff in proportions of their total numbers depending on the purpose of the survey . |
| 9 | With the black market standing at roughly one-tenth of the official rate in mid-1990 , many investors who might otherwise have wanted to invest were holding back , betting that the official rate could not indefinitely be propped up . |
| 10 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 11 | Hence , corporate groups can continue to exist with separable SBUs and will not inevitably be broken up . |
| 12 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 13 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend will know that reserve aeroplanes can not simply be trundled out of a hangar and launched into the air . |
| 15 | Therefore , a very low level of geological activity today can not quite be ruled out . |
| 16 | However , a significant contribution to the internal magnetic dipole moment from liquid iron and other materials nearer the centre of Jupiter can not quite be ruled out . |
| 17 | Otherwise the ‘ thought ’ that the sea is uniformly blue , which is the logical complement of its appearing to be uniformly blue , could not consistently be entertained along with the thought that the sea is not really blue at all . |
| 18 | Nizan " communist allegiances can not consequently be glossed over , however significant his ultimate break from the party might be . |
| 19 | The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering . |
| 20 | Their relevance outside the situation for which they were designed , where eventual aims can not be so readily related to learning objectives , should not therefore be taken on trust ( see Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The rooms were hollow about her , unresponsive , as though , resentful of her absence , they had returned to desuetude and would not lightly be chivvied back . |