Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 2 | Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve . |
| 3 | Letters are a record of what has or has not been agreed or said by various parties |
| 4 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 5 | Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned . |
| 6 | Disputes as to whether an admitted rule has or has not been violated will always occur and will , in any but the smallest societies , continue interminably , if there is no agency specially empowered to ascertain finally , and authoritatively , the fact of violation … |
| 7 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 8 | In written language , as in spoken language , one can refer to the context to establish whether a piece of information has or has not been introduced earlier . |
| 9 | I am committed to Nottinghamshire miners , which is hardly surprising — but that is not the case , or has not been , with Labour . |
| 10 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 11 | The other exception is that , under RSC Ord 22 , r7(2) , any party may bring the attention of the court to the fact that a payment in has or has not been made and the date ( but not the amount ) of such payment where the question of the costs of the issue of liability falls to be decided , that issue having been tried and an issue of question of quantum remaining to be tried separately . |
| 12 | The end result is an immature beer that has not been allowed to breathe and condition in the cask and which tastes flat and gassy in the glass . |
| 13 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 14 | The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol . |
| 15 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |
| 16 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 17 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 19 | Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses . |
| 20 | There is another brown-field alternative that has not been investigated : to build a new RIBA administrative building on a new site and sell 66 Portland place to the trust set up to operate the architecture centre and the library . |
| 21 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 22 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 23 | Another aspect of the data that has not been adequately explained is known as odd-even staggering . |
| 24 | After correcting the posture we will find that movements become easier and we will sense a lightness that has not been present since childhood . |
| 25 | So an ‘ organically ’ grown carrot is one that has not been sprayed with synthetic pesticides — despite the fact that these are ‘ organic ’ chemicals . |
| 26 | Remember to keep rhubarb that has not been stripped of its poisonous leaves well away from similar-looking cabbage or spinach ; remove green parts and sprouting eyes from your potatoes . |
| 27 | They must choose a nursery rhyme that has not been chosen before , and then the third or fourth team continues . |
| 28 | Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers . |
| 29 | In 1992 that has not been the case , and I ca n't really tell you why . |
| 30 | For his part , Gould has voiced a degree of scepticism about Europe that has not been heard from a Labour frontbencher for many a long year , and has rescued ‘ devaluation ’ from the party 's dictionary of forbidden words . |