Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb mod] not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement . |
| 2 | The political significance of this change should not be underestimated . |
| 3 | This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that . |
| 4 | Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects . |
| 5 | But this function could not be achieved by the state directly since it was too remote . |
| 6 | This difficulty can not be overcome by a stipulation that the receipt message and the private key together are the equivalent of a paper based negotiable bill of lading . |
| 7 | Mr. Watkinson accepted that the closing words of section 69(1) place a difficulty in his way , but he maintained that this difficulty can not be allowed to outweigh the clear words of Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 8 | But Wordsworth does not use any dialect expression , so that this difficulty need not be exaggerated . |
| 9 | Mr Wriglesworth is confident that this story will not be repeated in 1992 . |
| 10 | The valuable musical contribution of Betty Pulkingham , Graham Kendrick and others in this field should not be overlooked . |
| 11 | It can easily be shown that " you know what I mean ! " and " you know ! " in this case can not be eliciting an agreement . |
| 12 | Describing himself as ‘ instinctively uneasy ’ , he went on to say that this case could not be used as a precedent by people who want to push the boundaries of life and death still further in the direction of euthanasia . |
| 13 | There is a danger of precipitating asystole or electromechanical dissociation , so this technique should not be used for VT with a pulse unless a defibrillator and pacemaker are immediately available . |
| 14 | Watkins LJ in Seymour in the Court of Appeal ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 21 stated that this direction must not be used : " It is no longer necessary or helpful to make reference to compensation and negligence . " |
| 15 | This certificate will not be required when the demand also requires payment of a separate debt , not based on a county court judgment , the amount of which exceeds the bankruptcy level ( at present £750 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Finally , we would urge that this decision should not be seen as immutable . |
| 17 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 18 | A moment 's thought will convince the reader that the crossed reading is prohibited here : this sentence can not be used to describe a situation where Arthur knows that the animal in question is an alsatian , but is unsure of its sex , while Mike knows that it is female , but thinks it might be a wolf . |
| 19 | This variety can not be captured by the notion of loose apposition , and it can not , therefore , provide the basis for the analysis of the phrasal phenomena discussed in the final section or the discourse phenomena discussed in the preceding sections of this article . |
| 20 | This provision shall not be taken as prejudicing a finding to the effect that a person 's occupation of any land is by implied permission of the person entitled to the land in any case where such a finding is justified on the actual facts of the case … |
| 21 | This provision can not be contracted out of . |
| 22 | It has now transpired that this money can not be guaranteed , and the estate may be sold instead to a private buyer . |
| 23 | This experience can not be replicated in second language acquisition . |
| 24 | This hypothesis could not be tested in the course of the present study , unfortunately , but it remains an interesting question which merits attention in the future . |
| 25 | This hypothesis must not be pushed too far , because one of the main Saharan ergs is the Libyan Sand Sea on the borders between Egypt and Libya in the arid heart of the Sahara . |
| 26 | Some have therefore concluded that behaviour in this category can not be termed altruism at all . |
| 27 | This privilege must not be abused by using it for something which is not a point of order . |
| 28 | Thus the adducts detected in this study may not be derived from bile at all but merely have their binding to DNA increased by bile . |
| 29 | This theorem can not be relied on in other cases . |
| 30 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |