Example sentences of "and this [vb mod] not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is always the risk that you will be treated as a spokesperson on behalf of lawyers generally and this may not be taken too kindly by your colleagues . |
| 2 | And this need not be seen as a particularly innovative piece of verbal transvestism on the part of the Shipman . |
| 3 | The load on the UPS has a maximum rating , typically around 250 to 500 watts for a PC , and this must not be exceeded or the UPS will be overloaded . |
| 4 | The president of Dunoon and District Hoteliers Association , Bill Taylor , said last night : ‘ The Dunoon Area Tourist Board is due to be dissolved at the end of March and this must not be allowed . |
| 5 | Data analysis is an iterative process : the final model will not be obtained until after a number of tries and this should not be seen as slowness , but care for accuracy . |
| 6 | In the case of an unquoted company , the vendor is primarily concerned as to the marketability of the shares and this should not be underestimated . |
| 7 | Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching . |
| 8 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 9 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 10 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 11 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 12 | Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy . |
| 13 | What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released . |
| 14 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 15 | Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world . |
| 16 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 17 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 18 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 19 | The whole point and purpose of authorities , I shall argue below , is to pre-empt individual judgment on the merits of a case , and this will not be achieved if , in order to establish whether the authoritative determination is binding , individuals have to rely on their own judgment of the merits . |
| 20 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |