Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now clear that the Council could not be concluded in a single session . |
| 2 | Many non-socialist supporters of markets argue too that the pursuit of ex ante planning as a substitute for the ex post coordination of economic activity through the market can not be achieved in a complex society and that its pursuit is actually destructive of very basic individual freedoms . |
| 3 | They are active things which perceive , think , and will , and these properties can not be represented in a passive idea . |
| 4 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 5 | It was argued that users of financial statements should be aware that the performance of complex organisations can not be summarised in a single number and that to obtain a proper understanding of such performance , knowledge of a range of important aspects is required . |
| 6 | There are no phenomena , no " occult " mental properties , he argues , that can not be analysed in a physical causal context . |
| 7 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
| 8 | California 's philosophy underpinning its seismic codes holds that a building should not be damaged in a minor quake , should suffer no more than minor structural damage in a moderate quake and not collapse in a major quake . |
| 9 | This has raised the question of whether a study such as Bourner and Hamed 's gives a favourable impression of non-standard entrants which would not be replicated in a similar study in the university sector . |
| 10 | By definition , levels of prescribed output and organization of workload can not be fixed in a local state structured to follow this course . |
| 11 | Such actions were understandable , given that fascist speakers like William Joyce were already bluntly stating at public meetings that freedom of speech could not be tolerated in a fascist state . |
| 12 | Chief executive Jim Greenwood said : ‘ The work can not be done in a close season , so we are looking to start it next February and have the new stand ready for August , 1994 . |
| 13 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 14 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 15 | The worthy objective of ‘ normalization ’ should therefore lead to the implementation of care practices and procedural policies which are appropriate for those with mental disorders and it should not be applied in a rigid and obsessive fashion . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , such policies must not be applied in a heavy-handed manner , as the MacDonald Report concluded , otherwise they could have the opposite effect to that which was intended . |
| 17 | THREE police officers facing allegations of possession of drugs will not be prosecuted in a criminal court , it emerged yesterday . |
| 18 | The magazine commented that a narrow electoral victory by the LDP would entail some degree of compromise with major opposition parties and , in addition , the anti-war sentiment prevalent within the JSP meant that demands for further increases in the defence budget would not be viewed in a favourable light , especially expenditure concerning the acquisition of " future generation " weapons systems . |
| 19 | Can I just now you predicated that answer by saying this can not be countenanced in a normal liberal democracy . |
| 20 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 21 | They were told that the underlying constipation can not be treated in a short period of time . |
| 22 | The argument is that a constitution need not be embodied in a single document or , indeed , wholly written . |
| 23 | As with sections 1–2 , the offence need not be committed in a public place . |
| 24 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 25 | Cost effectiveness estimates should not be used in a mechanistic fashion ; at best they provide a useful aid for decision making . |
| 26 | The solvent-weld cement gives off powerful fumes and should not be used in a confined space . |
| 27 | Integers , reals and strings can not be mixed in a multi-dimensional array ; you have to use one array for each type of variable you need . |
| 28 | But all such categorizations are theory-dependent , and on the view that we have adopted for convenience , namely that pragmatics concerns those aspects of meaning and language-structure that can not be captured in a truth-conditional semantics , the grammatical category of deixis will probably be found to straddle the semantics/pragmatics border . |
| 29 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |
| 30 | ‘ But my dear girl , you do n't know these other pupils , ’ she had said when Eve had politely requested that she should not be put in a public position of a non-fee-paying student . |