Example sentences of "[modal v] not be [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of this is that the records may not be physically in sequence after a control interval split , although they will be handled in sequence by the indexes . |
| 2 | Similar diagrams to show the periods of flourishing of various natural groups were used by Richard Owen , Darwin 's chief adversary in England ; illustrations which look Darwinian may not be so in fact , but merely indicate that contemporaries were all wrestling with similar problems , and were sharing a good many assumptions . |
| 3 | Pleasure also becomes the element which protects the poet from the action of the powerful against a message they may not be fully in agreement with . |
| 4 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 5 | She was sure that Comrade Andrew would not be still in bed , whoever else was . |
| 6 | The management became worried that if the calls for encores were to continue the opera , with its three ballets , lasting six hours , would be so long that the nobility would not be home in time for supper . |
| 7 | It is almost certain that the tips will not be exactly in line with each other . |
| 8 | In other words , Labour , through control of the House of Commons , may form a government but it will not be fully in power because there is power in the secret state , in the private centres of economy and society , and in the international market itself , and all of these things lie beyond the easy grasp of a parliamentary majority . |