Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] be [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaining and breaking through a relativized understanding of knowledge requires a conception of human intellectual independence and an epistemological sophistication which the term ‘ student learning ’ can not sensibly be stretched to cover . |
| 2 | Also , conservatories need not necessarily be built to accommodate an existing door of the house . |
| 3 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 4 | This should not only be expected to happen as a natural consequence of ‘ the Church 's active , sympathetic presence within the world of communications ’ ( ibid. ) , but also as the result of a precise commitment on the part of communicators . |
| 5 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 6 | The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them . |
| 7 | They can not easily be used to describe those events outside of us , like our social circumstances or what psychiatrists call ‘ life events ’ , that have such a critical impact on our emotions . |
| 8 | If Stagecoach has sold it , why should the contemptible consumers of bus services not just be left to suffer from market forces imposed on them by the Government through privatisation ? |
| 9 | You will not normally be asked to speak during this induction period . |
| 10 | The Treasury inisted last night that Mr Major would not normally be expected to attend . |
| 11 | It would not normally be expected to change more than twice a year . |
| 12 | It would not normally be expected to change more than twice a year . |
| 13 | Of course , where politicians are denied control , they can not normally be expected to assume accountability , thus undermining the principle that public administration should be publicly accountable . |
| 14 | As a fixed term appointee you will be non-mobile and not normally be expected to transfer to a post outside reasonable daily travelling distance of your home . |
| 15 | The next category called for meticulous historical research , which Down 's Syndrome people would not normally be expected to achieve and , initially Fiona was rather daunted by the task . |
| 16 | Suppliers extending credit to the company expect to see a substantial buffer of current assets to protect their claims and the ratio should not normally be allowed to fall below a given point . |
| 17 | Suppliers extending credit to the company expect to see a substantial buffer of current assets to protect their claims and the ratio should not normally be allowed to fall below a given point . |
| 18 | For , there is a widespread phenomenon that Grice has called exploitation : in general , if there is some communicative convention C that one does A in context Y , then suppose instead one does B in Y , or does A but in context Z , one will not normally be taken to have simply violated the convention C and produced nonsense . |
| 19 | Where it is only specific individual assets of a business that are transferred , a prohibition on competition on the vendor will not usually be required to protect the purchaser and is likely to infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 20 | Redcliffe-Maud summed up : ‘ Size can not statistically be proved to have a very important effect on performance ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969 , Vol . |
| 21 | He conceded that the mind can not directly be forced to assent to a proposition , but held that penal laws can break the weight of intellectual prepossession . |
| 22 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 23 | Even employees who come into personal , face to face contact with the employer 's trade connections , can not always be said to have sufficient quality of contact . |
| 24 | Struggles about language are long drawn-out : speakers can not always be brought to see the point of innovations , still less the virtue in them . |
| 25 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |
| 26 | The Vendor can not possibly be expected to have a view as to whether or not the Business is a party to any agreements which fall within these categories . |
| 27 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 28 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with him ( or her ) ; |
| 29 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the applicant can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; or |
| 30 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |