Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that such a provision should not be implied . |
| 2 | The court held that such a provision should not be implied . |
| 3 | The extent of this immunity was stated most widely in Duncan v. Cammel Laird ( H. L. , 1942 ) , where a claim by the Admiralty that documents relating to the construction of a submarine should not be disclosed , was upheld . |
| 4 | When a regional secretary , acting on the advice of the solicitor , indicates that a case can not be won , and terminates legal assistance under rule twenty seven , should the member be able to appeal against that decision ? |
| 5 | A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Although the substance of a decision may not be altered materially , it may be trimmed with the timing of its announcement , or the explanations offered , being geared to the anticipated reception by populist opinion , especially as evidenced by the press . |
| 7 | Such a decision should not be taken timidly . |
| 8 | The no evidence doctrine was commonly taken to mean that a decision will not be regarded as outside of the jurisdiction of the decision-maker even if he reached his decision on no evidence . |
| 9 | A decision will not be held to be unlawful because it is ‘ unreasonable ’ in the ordinary , non-legal sense . |
| 10 | But , while outlining the grounds for imposing a charge for waste collection , a spokesperson for the DoE insisted such a decision could not be taken lightly . |
| 11 | ( It has also been suggested that derivations from a stem might not be listed explicitly , so that there would be no separate listing of a word like singer , only a listing of the lexical rule for the formation of an agentive . ) |
| 12 | The meaning of a sentence should not be allowed to depend on punctuation . |
| 13 | The article shows that the interpretation of a text can not be limited to a purely linguistic analysis and advocates the case for the " bibliographical and productive histories of the poems we read " ( p. 205 ) . |
| 14 | It is fairly easy to demonstrate that the meaning of a text can not be constrained by reference to a writer 's intentions . |
| 15 | California 's philosophy underpinning its seismic codes holds that a building should not be damaged in a minor quake , should suffer no more than minor structural damage in a moderate quake and not collapse in a major quake . |
| 16 | She feels that exhortations are fine but the real purpose of a writer should not be dissolved in the political ideas of the time . |
| 17 | In such cases the Court of Justice has held that the requirements of Article 190 are satisfied if the statement of reasons given explains in essence the measures taken by the institutions and that a specific statement of reasons in support of all the details which might be contained in such a measure can not be required , provided such details fall within the general scheme of the measures as a whole . |
| 18 | I admit a cloak would not be missed , but a precious ring ? |
| 19 | if a cheque can not be endorsed or forwarded , a bank account should be opened in the name ‘ KPMG Peat Marwick as nominee for [ name ] ’ or ‘ KPMG Peat Marwick in trust for [ name ] ’ . |
| 20 | Although the depiction of an ancient building on a coin can not be taken entirely at face value , it would be equally wrong to conclude that the evidence of coins is worthless in reconstructing the architectural history of the ancient world . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The risks of a drug can not be treated in isolation from its benefits , from the risks of the disease being treated , or from the potentially deleterious effects of drug withdrawal . |
| 23 | The duty to perform a contract can not be derived from the principle of respect for autonomy . |
| 24 | Again , therefore , we conclude that the right to enforce a contract can not be derived from the liberal principle of respect for individual autonomy . |
| 25 | Above all , it is a fundamental principle of English law that a contract can not be varied unilaterally . |
| 26 | The presuppositions of a modifier can not be pinpointed in this way , because a head which exactly duplicates them does not yield pleonasm . |
| 27 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 28 | If a buyer can not be found fast , rumour goes , the bank may lose hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 29 | P&P Plc has quickly found a buyer for its volume computer distribution business which should mean that it can reverse at least a part of the £8.9m provision it took against its most recent figures to cover costs of closure if a buyer could not be found . |
| 30 | Oil field developments have the advantage that a contract and a buyer need not be established prior to development . |