Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] and [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist who speaks , works , paints behind the curtain can not be named and labelled and authenticated — pinned down — as tidily as the academic art historian , identifying a drawing , would believe . |
| 2 | If careful investigation reveals a secure and successful domestic situation , then there should be no reason why a child should not be adopted and raised by the couple . |
| 3 | By then it was inevitable , given such wide terms of reference and the thoroughness expected of an inquiry by a Royal Commission , that its report could not be completed and delivered until after a General Election had taken place and , as it turned out , a new Government had come into power . |
| 4 | Like every church , like every Christian organisation , there were things being said and done in the Christian family in Rome that should not be said and done in a fellowship of Christ 's people . |
| 5 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 6 | As far as registered conveyancing is concerned , there seems no reason why the transfer should not be prepared and executed in triplicate ( or an original with examined copies ) , the original transfer being lodged at HM Land Registry , the duplicate being held with the second charge certificate and the third being retained by the husband as evidence of his release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 7 | Above all , they should not be imposed and regulated by a central power . |
| 8 | The problems endured and created by large cohorts seem considerable and there is no reason why Easterlin effects should not be recognized and incorporated into other models . |
| 9 | However , that part of evolution which to modern man appears to be extremely cruel , must not be condemned and relegated to the depository of ‘ evil ’ for evil has no meaning in respect of evolutionary processes . |
| 10 | Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning . |
| 11 | The system of personalised in-bureau training that has been described above could not be sustained and developed without the two-tier system of area training officers supported by area tutors and many in-bureau tutors . |
| 12 | ‘ Where there is no vision the people perish ’ — if there are not clear internal channels of communication , and we are not able to talk coherently among ourselves , then we will not be heard and understood outside the Town Hall ; |
| 13 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 14 | On a board , the Cypress chip-set is plug-compatible with SuperSparc Mbus modules , though the two can not be mixed and matched . |
| 15 | One feature I was sad to see here on a recent visit was a fish hatchery installed in the bay , a sight now common in the western lochs and doubtless contributing to the local economy ; sad because I feel that all living creatures should have freedom of movement and not be bred and confined in restricted space for the table . |
| 16 | But there is no reason why we should not tell stories of English boys who leave the village and make good in the city — why rural drama should not be found and filmed among the mountains of Wales and moors of Yorkshire . |
| 17 | It is also probable that the necessary legislation for the liberalisation of the service sector will not be agreed and implemented by 1992 . |
| 18 | We have shown that these word matches occur so frequently that competing hypotheses can not be pursued and compared over the length of the entire utterance . |
| 19 | But because they are listed , many of the more badly deteriorated buildings and terraces can not be demolished and rebuilt with more modern structures — and are left empty , because the zoo does n't have the funds available to repair them . |
| 20 | There is , it seems , absolutely no reason why Loxodonta africana should not be tamed and trained as readily as Elephas maximus . |
| 21 | This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease . |
| 22 | Blame becomes indiscriminate when it can not be focused and seen in context , and it is black people who are the ones to suffer most in this situation . |
| 23 | Someone who could be trusted with confidences , give advice , and yet not be constrained and influenced by being your parent . |
| 24 | New opportunities can not be designed and prescribed by one group of people , produced by another , and offered as discrete choices to ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 25 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 26 | I knew it would n't be cut and dried vs Man City so I was pleased with the result . |
| 27 | You 'll get little or no value from notes taken on scrappy paper , which ca n't be filed and retrieved at will or which are difficult to decipher . |