Example sentences of "[modal v] not be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evil should not be unrecognized merely because it is as banal as indifference ; indifference rather than intent may well be the greater cause of avoidable human suffering , particularly in the case of corporate crime . |
| 2 | Thus , although the monies received are capital in nature they are deemed to be income for the purposes of giving the taxpayer deductions and reliefs and they are charged under Case VI of Schedule D. Thus , for instance , the remittance basis would not be applicable although there is no reason why general principles should not be applicable so that income arising overseas and received by a non-resident would not be chargeable under general principles whilst income arising in the United Kingdom could be chargeable under general principles regardless of who it is paid to . |
| 3 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In 1985 however , the Law Commission did recommend that a marriage entered into by a man or woman domiciled in England and Wales should not be invalid merely because it is entered into under a law which permits polygamy , provided that neither party is already married . |
| 5 | We should not be surprised perhaps that children can grow up holding some very strange ideas : |
| 6 | Further , this principle should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen paid the money under mistake of law . |
| 7 | This principle should extend to embrace cases in which the tax or other levy has been wrongly exacted by the public authority not because the demand was ultra vires but for other reasons , for example because the authority had misconstrued a relevant statute or regulation , and should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 8 | Your budgie may not be far away and will perhaps come back when it feels hungry . ’ |
| 9 | There seems no good reason why herbs should not be used at home to cure many minor ills , in the same way that aspirin are useful for headaches , toothache , etc. , and the day may not be far away when a book of standard prescriptions using herbs is universally available . |
| 10 | However , students attention should be drawn to the fact that these were not sold in the closing down sale so open market value may not be appropriate even if it could be established . |
| 11 | Although some bureaux can make access for disabled clients feasible , there are still many disabled clients for whom coming to a bureau may not be worthwhile even if their problem is pressing . |
| 12 | But I 'm not sure whether it can be a permanent home for her because the fencing might not be good enough if she becomes lonely and tries to get out . |
| 13 | She might not be alive now if we 'd left her there . ’ |
| 14 | If the decision applies in this context , then a defendant will be guilty of rape if he has sexual intercourse with a non-consenting woman without giving any thought to the possibility that she might not be consenting even though the risk of this was obvious . |
| 15 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 16 | True autonomy could not be possible anyway because , like Miliband , Poulantzas argues that thought and action are conditioned by ideological hegemony . |
| 17 | There was also the time element The next tide could not be far away and if he was caught by the tide he would be in real trouble . |
| 18 | I could n't be bored here if I tried . ’ |
| 19 | There is a flat at the top of our house where our younger son and his wife had lived until Mark was a year old , so there was accommodation for them : they need n't be homeless even if they were penniless ! |
| 20 | Likewise , small start up workshops would not be useful here because of the small revenue they attract . |
| 21 | It allows the engineers to achieve something which would not be possible otherwise and which seems natural to the audience . |
| 22 | It would not be surprising therefore if publication rates were found to vary between sub-fields . |
| 23 | In the case of general unemployment where the required fall in the real wage rate — the reader will recall that Keynes accepted the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour — would not be forthcoming even if perfect competition were the rule in all markets . |
| 24 | All my pleasures will be solitary , even when I happen to be in company ; I shall not be exhilarated simply because the people around me are enjoying themselves , nor depressed because they are in low spirits . |
| 25 | And who 's to say that Edmund would n't be alive today if … ? ’ |
| 26 | It would n't be disastrous even if it gave out in mid-field , he adds . |
| 27 | Thus , a lease which contains a rent review clause will not be uncertain merely because the amount of the rent is not known at the date of the lease . |
| 28 | Equally if the vendors are two or more companies in the same group , the agreement will not be registrable merely because both vendors undertake restrictions unless the purchaser also undertakes restrictions . |
| 29 | It seems fairly obvious that often such a decision will not be possible either because no clear decision procedures are available , or because of certain fundamental difficulties involved in applying such procedures . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying I can give you a figure , all I can say is that originally identifiable will not be forthcoming now because some of this proposal is not meeting them . |