Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note the steam pump on the basin side of the stop planks , used because of the lower level could not be drained by gravity . |
| 2 | Er in paragraph a hundred and eight of that paper and I 'd I 'd like to read er read a quotation out , However because an exception is not acknowledged it does not mean that provision could not be made for this . |
| 3 | That finding could not be disclosed , for its publication would have revealed the regime 's double dishonesty , in suppressing the truth and in using the incident to justify repressive measures against the liberalizers in the university and to rally the faithful around Franco . |
| 4 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 5 | The relative contribution of each component can not be clarified from this study . |
| 6 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 7 | He may be not qualified for a number of reasons , including that in the above paragraph , save that if a returning officer has decided that the nomination is valid , that decision may not be questioned ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , para.12(5) , ( 6 ) ) . |
| 8 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 9 | If an application is declared admissible , and a friendly settlement can not be achieved , the subsequent decisions of the Court are binding on the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | If a foster mum ca n't be found Sami will have to be hand reared at the stables in Deddington , but the owners he 's much likelier to have a healthy life if he 's reared the natural way . |
| 11 | Opponents of the hunt say that killing seals for non-essential products can not be justified economically or ecologically . |
| 12 | If they think the right decision will not be taken , it is their job to persuade people to vote differently . |
| 13 | Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity ? |
| 14 | However the DES stated that specific funding could not be made while there were empty places in neighbouring county schools within two miles . |
| 15 | None of us it is a matter of extreme regret that they were terrified in the way they claim they were , but that sympathy must not be allowed to cloud your judgement on the issue about whether the police were reasonable . |
| 16 | In the article referred to in the Introduction , Ralf Dahrendorf maintains that the underclass is not a revolutionary threat to political stability , and that accommodating political change will not be induced by this argument . |
| 17 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 18 | Since private shareholders can not be expected to subsidize the wider goals of society as a whole , public ownership may then be inevitable . |
| 19 | Mr referred to the provisions of the Data Protection Act , and it was agreed that permission would not be given . |
| 20 | The mythical value of the siege for the construction of protestant — loyalist hegemony should not be underrated . |
| 21 | It may be true that ‘ an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters ’ . |
| 22 | This is , of course , no indication that strenuous aerobic exercise during pregnancy is not harmful , but an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy . |
| 23 | A number of American cases ruled that reassignment need not be made where the disabled employee had insufficient seniority under local union agreements or where collective bargaining had established job-related standards for the reassigned position which the disabled employee could not meet . |
| 24 | What environmentalists are saying is that change should not be made for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of many . |
| 25 | England assistant manager Lawrie McMenemy has already warned Wright that ill-discipline will not be tolerated in Graham Taylor 's regime . |
| 26 | Their political activities may not be perceived as very significant and useful by the bulk of the membership . |
| 27 | Jim Martin , EIS general secretary , said that such changes continuing in education for purely political reasons would not be tolerated by the Scottish public . |
| 28 | As Gittins has put it , ‘ The commonsense notion that all families in the past were much more solidaristic and stable institutions can not be borne out — death saw to that ’ ( Gittins , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 29 | That course could not be taken in the present case , because of a specific and unusual statutory provision which anticipated the kind of mistake which was made by the sentencer in this case . |
| 30 | The other points to note on the Regulations are : ( i ) that advantage can not be taken of the section if a provision , ‘ however expressed , ’ of the company 's memorandum or articles requires copies of the full accounts to be sent to members or which prohibits the sending of summary financial statements ( ii ) that provisions , similar to those in relation to the full accounts , apply to approval by , and signature on behalf of , the directors of the summary , and ( iii ) that , up to the end of 1991 , most listed companies do not seem to have opted to adopt the innovation . |