Example sentences of "not be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But Lord Robertson disallowed his evidence , firstly because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship ( though Mr Beltrami had already been issued with a waiver for this from the Scottish Law Society ) , secondly because evidence against McGuinness could not be competent as evidence against Waddell .
2 If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 .
3 It was also a knowledge that could not be unlearned or removed from the human stockpile .
4 It will be ideal if you can park the car in such a way that the dog can move in and out as it wants , with the door left open , although clearly this will not be possible unless you have a driveway with a gate at the end .
5 It also argues that long-term environmental and economic sustainability may not be possible unless the government takes responsibility for detailed assessments of the flora and fauna of native forests , and for the effective monitoring of logging operations .
6 Might it not be possible that ours is indeed the only Universe , and that it represents the ‘ best line ’ through all the trillions of probabilities ?
7 It is advisable to wear loose , comfortable clothing , although if you have come straight from work this may not be possible and is not essential .
8 Such an occurrence would not be possible when solving ILPs .
9 This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment .
10 Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’
11 Even though it may not be possible or desirable to run a full-scale programme of this kind , it is sensible to agree the purpose of making a video recording and , from that , criteria to apply to the end result .
12 However , there is a further piece of evidence , which can be used to show how historical circumstances can produce a dramatic demystification of the monarchy , which would not be possible if people did not already possess the ideological tools for critical demystification .
13 This may not be possible if the vendors do not have available funds until after receiving the sale proceeds , in which case a risk premium needs to be built into the fee structure because of contingent nature of the job .
14 However , that will not be possible if third party consents , etc. are required which can not previously be sought because of confidentiality .
15 Sample disks for CALL are under discussion but will not be possible until the products are ready .
16 Intellectual needs will have to be met , but the meeting of these needs may not be possible until other needs — physical , emotional and social — are first satisfied .
17 It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry .
18 It may not be coincidental that two of the long survivors with very low CD4 counts were also the oldest patients in the study , and it remains possible that the genetic background or immune changes responsible for AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis are , with increasing age , more likely to indicate a good prognosis independently of the CD4 count .
19 Admittedly , the repetition of such similar patterns together can not be coincidental but , as with the mosaics from Newton St. Loe , this repetition is not always best explained by the presence of the same craftsmen at a different site .
20 The subject of the letter will not be technical and the assignment will involve writing as a private individual to an organisation .
21 While it is important that we take stock of and combat the fraudulent ways in which we are being described by those who oppose us , we should not be unmindful or insensitive to what we are saying about ourselves , of how we are describing who-we-are .
22 ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . )
23 If you are a regular , or plan to be , then because of the amount of work imposed upon them you need a minimum of four ferrets since they must not be overworked and must be rested from time to time through the day .
24 We in the borough , we dare not be rough because we had to remain in Ipswich after the strike was over .
25 The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax .
26 Where the rivers have flowed transverse to the structure rias formed in them will have a much more irregular plan : the main arm of the ria may not be straight and it may possess branches developed along weaker beds followed by the courses of previous subsequent streams .
27 Brief counselling , consisting of exploration of symptoms and social difficulties , reassurance and advice , need not be time-consuming and is generally more acceptable to patients than psychotropic drugs ( Catalan et al. 1984a , b ) .
28 It indicates that there is something left over after the linguists have done their work , a dark or light madness about language that will not be repressed and that can erupt at the very heart of the most sacred regulations identified as normative by grammarians .
29 Some imitation will occur , but it will be insufficiently clear-cut to guarantee that a law suit will not be protracted and expensive .
30 Why not be progressive and try to take the game to new areas of the world ?
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