Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although almost all of them enjoyed supervising house officers , they admitted that there was little formal teaching ( as opposed to learning by apprenticeship ) and that they had not been trained to provide such teaching . |
| 2 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 3 | Past contributions had not been calculated to cover such expenditure , but societies felt an obligation to protect faithful members from ending their days on poor relief . |
| 4 | And we have not been asked to see any patients specifically to help social workers ' assessments . |
| 5 | However , this report was contradicted by the Independent of Oct. 22 which , citing a Syrian source with " impeccable credentials " , claimed that Rifaat had " not been asked to handle any job " and that the powerful intelligence hierarchy remained intact . |
| 6 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 7 | Personality tests have not been found to have such high predictive validity as ability tests . |
| 8 | At the time of writing , this section had not been used to exclude any children with learning difficulties or disabilities . |
| 9 | She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust . |
| 10 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 11 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 12 | This is to stop the roots drying out ; I have not been ordered to do this but am using my initiative . |
| 13 | It will not be desired to find all people who absent themselves without leave . |
| 14 | Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you have n't got the skill you should not be asked to undertake that task until you are trained or supervised . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You will not be asked to remove any clothing apart from your shoes . |
| 30 | 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 . |