Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line . |
| 2 | It must incorporate her views of her situation and her needs and yet not be limited by her low expectations and internalised acceptance of the consequences of ageism and sexism ( Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 , p. 236 ) . |
| 3 | Our pupils ' mathematical attainment and experience must not be limited by our restricted expectations . |
| 4 | The effectiveness of teaching can not be equated with its rational accountability . |
| 5 | He is glad that at least he will not be pitted against his own class in this way . |
| 6 | It being of no use for the master to say that the merchandise belongs to the owner of the ship because he can not be believed upon his word ; and he is not believed on his word when he declares that the ship belongs to the bourgeois and that there is no point to the charter party for the above stated reasons . |
| 7 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 8 | Many new qualities were introduced into these man-made fibres that could not be obtained from their natural counterparts . |
| 9 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 10 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 11 | ‘ I will not be cheated of my prize ! ’ |
| 12 | Remember that the B vitamins and vitamin C can not be stored in your body . |
| 13 | Yet a year earlier the Court of Appeal decided that a different girl of ten should not be adopted by her foster parents to whom she was attached because of her birth mother 's objections that adoption would result in the loss of contact between brother and sister ( The Times , 19 February 1987 , p. 3 ) . |
| 14 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 15 | When a record can not be placed in its home position , it must be stored at an address that can be located quickly . |
| 16 | It therefore seemed that the area of the event horizon of a black hole could not be regarded as its entropy . |
| 17 | Quite possibly , many of these people will not be represented at their workplace by a shop steward or lay representative . |
| 18 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 19 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 20 | Without internal means of communication the group can not be united in its performance , and without the common objective the group lacks the rationality and purposive control that would unite the actions of the elite in its efforts to establish , maintain and strengthen its own power . |
| 21 | Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging . |
| 22 | The customer must be notified or warned of the following where applicable : ( a ) That collateral will not be registered in his name ; ( b ) That that part of the proceeds of sale of his collateral that exceeds the amount owed by the customer to the firm will be subject , on the firm 's default , to the pooling rules under the client money regulations . |
| 23 | The life may take a different form to that experienced by most of us , and may not be rewarding in our terms , or in the terms by which society judges these things . |
| 24 | What I am arguing here is that the meaning of a linguistic feature can not be determined outside its context . |
| 25 | However , he makes the point that the faithfulness of a church can not be determined on its actual growth , because that is determined by a range of contextual factors outside of the control of the congregation . |
| 26 | Youngsters in particular would have difficulty — cheques from relatives and friends could not be cashed by their parents . |
| 27 | … The needlessness of imprinting such evident notions can not be argued from their present clearness ; because it is their being thus imprinted or thus connatural to our minds that makes them so . ’ |
| 28 | The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case . |
| 29 | Audrey Gray , a single mother of three , was quick to point out that Father Christmas would not be calling on her children this year and she had firm views on who was to blame . |
| 30 | A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman . |