Example sentences of "not be [vb pp] that [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Stirling had not been told that such a unit was operating in the target area , despite the fact that its presence might stir up the enemy . |
| 2 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 3 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 4 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 5 | For example , it can not be argued that poor women resorted to abortion because doctors withheld information about other birth control methods . |
| 6 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 7 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 8 | It need not be insisted that all valuational statements and words are functioning ethically , for there may be non-ethical attitudes . |
| 9 | And it can not be said that that is the union 's business as of generally recognised right to decide , or to share in deciding , that application . |
| 10 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 11 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 12 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 14 | Yet , while accepting that the working class was wedded to the Labour Party it should not be ignored that such support was also nurtured by a much improved Labour organization , despite Howard 's contrary view . |
| 15 | In addition , it should not be assumed that long-term trends in income distribution continue forever : there is evidence that recent years have seen significant changes in these trends in Britain . |
| 16 | It should not be assumed that such an argument was merely a cloak for self-interest and greed . |
| 17 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 18 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 19 | Although owning a car is common today , it must not be assumed that all nurses can provide their own transport . |
| 20 | However , it can not be assumed that all managers will consider the role of personality when they make decisions . |
| 21 | However , it should not be assumed that these low-cost alternatives can not deliver the same , sometimes better , results when used in conjunction with other software . |
| 22 | But it can not be assumed that these developments have in fact led to equality within the sexual sphere of marriage . |
| 23 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 24 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 25 | The defection of southern Democrats was essential , but it should not be assumed that this came about automatically , As Stockman makes clear , a whole series of ad hoc coalitions involving many unreliable allies had to be painstakingly constructed . |
| 26 | While the benefits of faster growth may spread throughout the EC , it can not be assumed that this will occur in a balanced manner . |
| 27 | Thus it should not be assumed that older patients with ulcerative colitis have weaker sphincters than younger patients . |
| 28 | It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression . |
| 29 | As a general principle it should not be imagined that all economic , social , and above all political repercussions were of a vertical central — local nature or vice versa . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it should not be imagined that private industries are immune from such considerations . |