Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands .
2 Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament .
3 The unfulfilled potential for new roles can not be completely and unreservedly surrendered to the psychiatrist .
4 Indirect costs ( also known as overhead costs ) are those costs that can not be easily and conveniently identified with a particular product .
5 It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified .
6 The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative .
7 Once proceedings have been commenced a child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of preparing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) .
8 In these circumstances it is essential that a direction is sought as the child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of providing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) .
9 Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe .
10 Evidently , experiences can not be appropriately or adequately described in terms of the categories that are applicable to public objects or events .
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