Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not only would momentary inadvertence not constitute a breach of the duty of care but in addition the test should not be applied with hindsight .
2 Not only would momentary inadvertence not constitute a breach of the duty of care but in addition the test should not be applied with hindsight .
3 Thus the statistical significance of the correlations should not be calculated with respect to an expected value of zero ( Stone , 1980 ) .
4 Since it was desirable that penitents should not be treated with rigour by one bishop and with mercy by a neighbouring bishop , a common policy was needed .
5 Some seed should not be covered with soil because it needs light to germinate , some needs an acid-reacting soil , and some needs a period of cold between harvest and sowing .
6 Even if ( and I do not accept this at all ) neutrality could only be justified as a means to a fair contest , it should not be identified with action securing a fair contest .
7 Reacting to the FIS march , Chadli on May 7 told religious scholars attending a conference on the future of Islam that religion should not be mixed with politics and party manoeuvring .
8 They should not be used with waste disposers .
9 In response to an appeal by the Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger ( USTN ) on May Day 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system , Mamadou Dagra , the Minister of Civil Service and Labour , said that this was not excluded by Niger 's current political system , but it was an issue which should not be pursued with haste .
10 The clever Canaries may not be brimming with university honours but assistant manager John Deehan revealed : ‘ We have got a set of very intelligent players — and it would be naive of myself and the manager not to take their advice . ’
11 Francis Latham put the point yet more clearly : ‘ women are physiologically disqualified from contention with men in the political arena , not by virtue of any tyrannical law of man 's devising , but by reason of fixed and irrevocable decrees of nature which may not be violated with impunity ’ .
12 But this one who could not be named with impunity , who could not be copied without distortion , still remained very much beyond our ken .
13 They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis .
14 For example : the traditional notation regarding ‘ on board ’ loading was replaced by a ‘ taking in charge ’ statement ; the traditional prohibition against transhipment was eliminated , because transhipment was of the essence in combined transport ; since the transport commonly originated and finished inland , the terms ‘ place of receipt ’ and ‘ place of delivery ’ were inserted in separate boxes , either replacing the traditional ‘ port of loading ’ and ‘ port of discharge ’ or joining them as additional specifications ; and since often times the name of the vessel was not known or could not be established with certainty at the time of issuance , the box for the vessel 's name was modified to refer to an ‘ intended vessel . ’
15 According to Les Echos that could not be corroborated with information from Bull , employees that choose the first option will get three months salary for agreeing to reduce their work time for two years .
16 When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him .
17 Since observations of planetary positions at various times could not be reconciled with circular , earth-centred orbits , Ptolemy introduced further circles , called epicycles , into the system .
18 In a world with saving and intergenerational transfers , marginalization in production need not be equated with marginalization in consumption , and any extension of savings or transfers must tend to lessen the importance of employment status in establishing overall economic status .
19 Buckles and strap-ends , for instance , need not be associated with clothing .
20 He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment .
21 I for one shall not be waiting with hope a-beating in my breast when Manchester 's Most Indolent resume their careers — DQ
22 In a world with uncertainty , the future spot price will not be known with certainty .
23 We had one particularly bad sexual harassment case which came out of West Belfast a couple of years ago , which I think was a landmark in the recognition by the courts that women can not be treated with indignity and in the way that that girl was treated .
24 Estimates of the useful lives of plant and equipment can not be made with precision and in practice a range of lives exist .
25 However , the boast of British literary artistic freedom can not be made with confidence , given a vague law and a swinging moral pendulum .
26 Similarly , references to accuracy , precision , clarity or lack of ambiguity can not be conflated with grammar .
27 Although the overall prevalence of moderate to severe dementia for those aged 65 and over in Britain can not be stated with accuracy ( because the several studies conducted in this country took place in different locations , at different times , with different types of sample , and using different measures and methods of assessment of dementia ; see for example Akhtar AM et al , 1973 ; Clarke et al , 1984 and ; 1986 ; Bergmann , 1971 ; Bond & Carstairs , 1982 ; Gruer , 1975 ; Gurland et al , 1983 ; Kay et al , 1964 & 1970 ; Maule et al , 1984 ; Williamson et al , l964 ) , it can be estimated as somewhere between one per cent and seven per cent of those aged 65 and over .
28 If identification of misplaced samples can not be completed with certainty at this stage the samples have little value for subsequent analysis and should be discarded .
29 The majority , however , are simply in need of a demonstration that ‘ authority ’ can not be challenged with impunity .
30 Surely , I thought , he can not be reflecting with pleasure on days of danger and incarceration ?
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