Example sentences of "not be the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But may it not be the case , he suggested , that images have already died and we are not aware of it ?
2 ‘ However this will not be the case if you no longer live in the property where you previously paid rates because it is the 1989–90 rates of the property where you now live which is used to calculate any reduction .
3 Nationalist feelings may well be ameliorated in relations between industrialised countries by the interdependence discussed above ; this will not be the case when the industrialised country is dealing with a less developed state , yet it is in this latter kind of country where nationalism may be most strongly manifested .
4 But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself .
5 I am sure that in the majority of instances the shepherding done by leaders is done very responsibly , but this need not be the case .
6 However , this may not be the case .
7 In the diagrams the applied forces are linear and uniformly distributed for simplicity 's sake ; however this need not be the case .
8 However , this only shows that there is some natural classification ( which would not be the case if traits were allotted to objects randomly ) , but not that the natural classification is hierarchical .
9 The beliefs of Christians could not , it was said , rest upon historical judgments , because these beliefs as ‘ truths of reason ’ would then depend upon the truths of history , which were only ‘ accidental ’ ( in other words , they might not be the case ) .
10 The parents argued that their action was not racially motivated , but rather reflected their concern that their children should be educated in a school with a prevailing Christian ethos , which they claimed would not be the case at the school designated by the LEA .
11 Although such schemes suggest high staffing ratios , this may not be the case if mentally handicapped people are given adequate opportunities to live independently and care for themselves .
12 This will not be the case if , for example , Uruguay could have supplied the parties with a commodity that , though useful to both , was in short supply in one country but not in the other .
13 Clearly this can not be the case .
14 This can not be the case since the men are fully in control and direct the lives of the people of Tigray .
15 This would not be the case if astrology worked .
16 It is also uncertain whether already overworked physicians would welcome this development ; the evidence from a survey of the views of doctors and nurses working in accident and emergency departments suggests that this would not be the case ( Ghodse 1979 ) .
17 This would not be the case if a gas cell were used , as the doppler broadening would cause the peaks to merge together .
18 This may not be the case , be realistic about your needs : do not skimp on food or heating or you may put your life at risk in the winter .
19 Where a dominant influence exists over a public company , the dominant undertaking will be liable for any damage suffered by the public company and , more radically , for any debts incurred by the public company as a result of its acting at the direction of the dominant undertaking , although this will seemingly not be the case if the dominant undertaking 's influence is in fact exercised in the best interests of the public company .
20 The same can not be the case with those who seek the welfare of all .
21 In reality this may not be the case : the explanation could simply be that the camera position for the second shot has been shifted over to the other side of the path .
22 Closer consideration , however , reveals that this can not be the case .
23 But this would not be the case where the trust assets were not exposed to the same risk that the other vendors accept .
24 This may not be the case in a small house fellowship , or of a small church in a face-to-face village community where everyone knows everybody else .
25 Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities .
26 ‘ This may or may not be the case and I am in no position to establish this , since as you are aware you and Helen have exercised total control both financially and in all other respects without reference to myself or any other director . ’
27 This need not be the case , since each level has information of its own to contribute to the overall picture , as well as selecting from the existing information .
28 However these choices will only occur if the correct words are contained in the list of alternative candidate words , which may not be the case .
29 So the ACE/D allele seems to be a very good marker for the susceptibility allele in that population , which may not be the case in non-caucasian populations .
30 Nevertheless for an individual sector , as we have already seen in Section 1.3 , this need not be the case since income can exceed expenditure and vice versa .
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