Example sentences of "not be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , Mr Kaifu was convinced , the Americans would not be shut up with a promise here , a concession there . |
| 2 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 3 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 4 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 5 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 6 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 7 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 8 | Ministers have decided that the National Rivers Authority will not be split up in the process of creating the new body but will be incorporated into it . |
| 9 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 10 | It could not be sent back to the original commission which was dominated by Lateran supporters , so a neatly balanced new one had to be constituted with Ottaviani and Bea as joint chairmen . |
| 11 | It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever . |
| 12 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 13 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 14 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 15 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 16 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 17 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 18 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 19 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 20 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 21 | The Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham on December 12 would be considered as an alternative if Morley Street were to miss Ascot , otherwise he might not be seen out before the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown on January 31 . |
| 22 | They were to ascertain " whether some of our own Nation inhabiting in those parts , may not be trained up in the said worke . " |
| 23 | This is essential if high levels are used , and the excess can not be ducted out of the room . |
| 24 | Part of the overall argument of this book is that , as the Roman catholic church is principal validator or legitimator of the Southern state along with the concept of the national entity , what that state goes on to do in the field of social ethics can not be separated out from the responsibilities of the church . |
| 25 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 26 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 27 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 28 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 29 | This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however . |
| 30 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |