Example sentences of "not [adv] be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , a constituency should form a homogenous whole and , ideally , it should not be so large in area that its affairs can not properly be overseen by its Members . |
| 2 | The products and services provided by these graduate entrepreneurs are diverse in nature and need not necessarily be related to their educational backgrounds or degree subjects . |
| 3 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 4 | Well , most obviously I have learnt that what is good for me can not necessarily be applied to everyone , although I still tend to dish out unsolicited advice . |
| 5 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 6 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 7 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 8 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 9 | will not only be missed by his friends and colleagues in the Ipswich office but by all the mills where his work has been much appreciated . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Bennet , on the other hand , can not only be guided by her own feelings . |
| 11 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 12 | For a working constitution in a democracy implies reference to certain norms and standards which lie beyond and outside the document itself , and which can not easily be inferred from it by someone who is not steeped in the history and culture of the country concerned . |
| 13 | It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials . |
| 14 | These were groups in need of institutional care and whose need could not always be attributed to their own fault . |
| 15 | He was not certain of the exact meaning of the word , but he knew without doubt that it could not possibly be applied to him . |
| 16 | Mr. Mottram , our ships could not Possibly be run on their Present manifests ! |
| 17 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 18 | Although the hammock episode is explicable in terms of his experience , the subsequent transition to drifting above the ground can not reasonably be related to his usual fate when falling out of the hammock ; these dreams , which are not uncommon , seem uniquely detached from any experience in real life . |
| 19 | His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and can not reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind . |
| 20 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 21 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 22 | Losing his job with the band had not really been to do with his mother being ill , but it had been easy to suggest the idea to Barnett . |
| 23 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 24 | You see it 's quite nice that erm some money is , is coming in from outside , but I don I think ideally it 's not really being spent on what our , our top priorities would |
| 25 | The atmosphere with the actual returnees themselves is one of concern and apprehension I guess , because they 're concerned that they 've been involved in this , this crisis and they 're not quite sure what 's happening , and they are er not really being told by everybody , you know , there 's just too many people to make it very clear where they 're all going and when they 're all going . |
| 26 | Such images may startlingly demonstrate the general truth that the meaning of a work can not simply be equated with its subject . |
| 27 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've not even been tempted by it ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's not even been mentioned between us . |
| 30 | The satin was perfect , had not even been removed from its muslin wrappers . |