Example sentences of "[not/n't] be dismiss as " in BNC.
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1 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
2 | That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage . |
3 | Of epidemiology , Justice Shepherd said , ‘ Despite its inexactitude epidemiology is a science ’ and that ‘ epidemiological studies … can not be dismissed as ‘ nothing ’ . ’ |
4 | The deep sense of frustration and resentment felt by leaders of the Nixon administration should not be dismissed as mere paranoia . |
5 | This design can not be dismissed as an automatic and inevitable consequence of building cells closely together , for bumble bees also make waxen cells and theirs are irregular bag-shaped containers , jumbled untidily together . |
6 | Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men . |
7 | It is hoped that this chapter will not be dismissed as an arid academic ground-clearing exercise , since it has important things to say about the most appropriate way to approach the subject of the book . |
8 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
9 | It should , nevertheless , not be dismissed as mere rhetoric . |