Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer begged and prayed that his oxen might not be eaten and promised that , if the tiger would spare them , he would give in exchange a fine fat young milk cow of his wife 's . |
| 2 | The siege lasted almost a year , ; Philip VI put in an appearance with a relieving army at the beginning of August 1347 but he came to the conclusion that the English could not be dislodged and went away again . |
| 3 | It can not be prescribed and controlled . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the squatters are adamant they will not be moved and argue they are testing the good faith of whites who profess to want change . |
| 7 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 8 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 9 | But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The original walls were so badly damaged they could not be saved and had to be pulled down because the stone had become non load-bearing . |
| 13 | It is imperative to gain the Head 's assurance that confidentiality shall not be broken and to insist that the child shall not be discriminated against . |
| 14 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military installations against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 15 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military bases against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 16 | The East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military installations against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 17 | Note that some types of motorised valve can not be serviced and have to be replaced ( a job that will entail draining down the entire system ) , but on many newer models it is possible to replace the valve motor and free the valve spindle if it is jammed , without having to interfere with the plumbing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The police and the Government can be proud of the police national computer because it fights crime , but it is important that they offer assurance to the general public that it can not be misused and does result in people being dealt with differently . |
| 21 | Above all , they should not be imposed and regulated by a central power . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The other one could not play on alone or find somebody else to play , and if the games could not be played and ended , the riddle could not be answered . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Spence , though , would not be denied and clinched the £93,859 at the second extra hole of the play-off . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Video pictures are recorded in the form of overlapping magnetic signals which can not be cut and respliced without severely disrupting the pictures when the tape is played back . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 ; |
| 30 | 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 ) . |