Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can establish that literacy practice involved a socially variable set of conventions ( as I hope this book will make a contribution to doing ) , then claims for its consequences will not so easily be disguised as universal truths . |
| 2 | But if the support for the SNP was , like the Liberal vote , a substantially ‘ cross-class ’ phenomenon it can not so easily be categorised as a flight from ‘ class ’ as pertinent social collectivity , since it must be recognised that the ‘ national distinctiveness ’ of Scotland is overdetermined by the differential balance of classes in Scotland as opposed to England . |
| 3 | The same can not so readily be said of a man , who does not necessarily imprint his surroundings with personal feelings . |
| 4 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 5 | Secondly , the treaty itself embodies the vital principle of ’ subsidiarity ’ , making it clear that the Community should only be involved in decisions which can not more effectively be taken at national level . |
| 6 | Apart from a few news and sport items and the TV listings , how much of Monday 's Mirror or Sun could not equally well be published on the following Thursday or Friday ? |
| 7 | The consequences of sleep loss and sleep reduction can not therefore simply be interpreted in terms of denial of sleep , but must be regarded as the outcome of a combination of sleep loss , causing sleepiness , and the subversion of the normally well-ordered physiological cycles which substantially control our states of arousal . |
| 8 | Babies can not therefore really be considered to be trained as they do not realize when they want to go , do not indicate that they want to , and do not go to the potty by themselves . |
| 9 | These freedoms could not very well be limited to men of the directing classes . |