Example sentences of "not be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the day on which 6,500 redundancy notices were delivered to army personnel , Grampian Enterprise confirmed it would not be renewing the grant when the 18-month contract runs out in March . |
2 | He approached the county councillor and poet , Francis Thomas , and told him he would not be renewing the lease on Tybrith as they had now outgrown it . |
3 | Child rearing is more ‘ permissive ’ , and while children may not be granted the status of equal partners in the family decision-making process , they are no longer simply expected to be seen and not heard . |
4 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has announced that it will not be tightening the standard for low-level ozone , the principal ingredient of smog . |
5 | This may be true , but he should not be clouding the issue with irrelevant gibes at the ‘ competition . ’ |
6 | People like those keen gardeners who talk to their flowers and love them , may not be helping the flowers but they are doing themselves much good , for love benefits the lover more than the loved . |
7 | Is he aware that had the Government encouraged investment in slaughtering facilities , we would not be exporting the jobs that are now being lost ? |
8 | If an individual item can not be matched the wording of this clause should be brought to the attention of the policyholder . |
9 | The pluralist answer to these arguments would not be to deny the existence of conflict ; on the contrary , one of the great virtues of the pluralist model in the eyes of its proponents is the emphasis on the positive benefits of conflict and diversity within a society . |
10 | Senior Shadow Cabinet sources indicated last night that Mrs Margaret Beckett , spokesman on Treasury affairs , would not be seeking the deputy leadership as part of a ‘ dream ticket ’ with John Smith . |
11 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
12 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
13 | and they 'll not er , they 'll not , people 'll not be using the buses as often like . |
14 | He also announced that the South African team would not be using the country 's current national anthem but the Olympic hymn , Beethoven 's " Ode to Joy " , and unveiled the flag under which the team would compete . |
15 | Thus , if there is an outright transfer of the matrimonial home to the wife subject to the existing mortgage ( see Chapters 3 , 4 and 7 ) or the matrimonial home is held on certain terms and conditions ( see Chapter 6 ) then the occupant wife should be made responsible for the mortgage payments ( the husband would not be using the house as his only or main residence and so would not be eligible for interest relief ) . |
16 | A speaker from the floor said Thompson should not be using the term ‘ NVQ ’ ( National Vocational Qualification ) but in ‘ VQ ’ in case of offending the Scots at the conference , who of course have ‘ SVQs ’ . |
17 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |
18 | If my hon. Friend has any evidence that other countries might not be implementing the regulations as carefully as we are , we shall certainly take action . |
19 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
20 | Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action . |
21 | You 're not on , we will not be made the scapegoats , with public sector workers will not pay for the Tories ' mismanagement of the economy . |
22 | Its main drawback is that you will be paying significantly more for your components , as you will not be getting the benefits of bulk buying . |
23 | Then came the news that Williams will not be getting the assistant he wanted . |
24 | The clash goes ahead in Las Vegas on 8 May , but Lewis 's handlers and the British Boxing Board of Control will not be taking the WBC verdict lying down . |
25 | Mr Nicholas Winterton ( C. Macclesfield ) announced that he would not be supporting the bill in Monday 's vote because it was ‘ severely flawed ’ . |
26 | Manifestly , we have no effective deterrent for hooligan crime , or we would not be debating the issue . |
27 | If the Government were not fearful of the electorate , we would not be debating the Queen 's Speech today , because there would be a general election next Thursday . |
28 | If thrown from his horse he would not be given the opportunity to remount . |
29 | ‘ Why the hell should disabled people not be given the chance to run things themselves ? ’ |
30 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |