Example sentences of "not [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Surely higher education can not be both the prerogative of an elite group of privileged middle-class women and a means of perpetuating male dominance .
2 As he put it to his son Philippe in February 1946 : " one can not be both the man for great storms and the man for squalid deals . "
3 Unfortunately , it might not be just a matter of rescheduling ‘ waking time ’ and ‘ mealtimes ’ along the lines we have suggested above , since the body does not adjust immediately to the new routine .
4 But the world of Living Doll need not be just a fantasy — win one of our special pampering make-overs and you too could feel like a top model .
5 Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity .
6 Choice should not be just a private sector option .
7 It will not be just a matter of turning up to beat Grimsby and Wolves .
8 The strategy for a very mature ‘ cash cow ’ or ‘ dog ’ need not be just an exit from the industry .
9 It could not be just the billowing Circassian trousers , though it is true I find trousers on women an anaphrodisiac .
10 And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church .
11 It may not be just the drink that is bad for your health .
12 Clinton 's wife Hillary one of America 's top lawyers has already made it clear she will not be just the mild , meek First Lady .
13 Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening .
14 These data suggest that HPV-16 may play an active part in colorectal carcinogenesis and may not be simply a casual DNA in transformed cells .
15 It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results .
16 Ergonomics can not be simply the adaptation of technology to suit invariant properties of ‘ man ’ , people change with technology .
17 It need not be exactly the same work but must be of the same nature and capacity and at the same place .
18 Hodge argues therefore that women 's epistemological position can not be exactly the same as men 's .
19 It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) .
20 Now it it just possible and I will explain in a moment why , that the necessity to avoid the greenbelt may not be exactly the same as being beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt .
21 ‘ It might not be exactly the same players who line up against Australia , ’ stressed Fletcher .
22 But if that examination were dropped , would it not be all the more necessary to retain A levels , emphasizing their role both as school-leaving certificate and as entry test for higher education ?
23 Assessing the performance of this kind of institution can not be solely a matter of adding up figures on a balance sheet , whether they are the finance officer 's financial data or the registrar 's data on student performance .
24 The UK should aim to rejoin the ERM in the course of the next 18 months when the strength of sterling should reflect the underlying strength of the economy and not be solely the product of high interest rates .
25 The explanation can not be solely the fact of differences in labour force structure ( a higher proportion of white-collar employment where unions have generally found greater difficulty in recruitment ) since , on an inter-country basis , white-collar unionisation itself is also appreciably lower in the United States than in other comparable countries ( von Beyme , 1980 ) .
26 So self-understanding can not be merely a matter-of-fact .
27 He may falsely believe that the difference between something 's looking blue and its looking grey can not be merely a perceived-as appearance difference , but that there must be a difference in the presentation appearance .
28 Such a formula would not , it seems , commend itself to Professor Williams , who further argues that the threat must not be merely a threat to withhold a benefit from the woman .
29 As we have already pointed out a number of times , the predicative position is the surface structure which marks assignment of the property of the adjective to the entity of the subject ; but it goes without saying that the subject of a sentence can not be merely a relation between two parts of itself ; therefore an adjective which is specialized to qualify the relation between entity and description is automatically excluded from predicative position for that reason .
30 The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again .
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