Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] properly [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Currently , all FIMBRA members are able to offer pensions advice , even though they may not be properly qualified in what is acknowledged to be a highly complex area .
2 The original Tempa Rossa-1 discovery well , which is in the Laurenzana permit , was drilled by Fina in 1989 but could not be properly tested at that time due to technical problems .
3 Sykes was , the director confessed , a dramatic device , but the story could not be properly told without one .
4 I should have two at least — three even — or else I would not be properly cared for . ’
5 Daddy feared I would not be properly looked after .
6 Agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night : ‘ People are often despairing — especially in the cases of offspring whose ageing parents fear they will not be properly looked after when they have gone .
7 The country can not be properly served by a Government who pretend that they can somehow call a halt to or defer the agreed purpose of the rest of the Community .
8 Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books .
9 So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time .
10 When Schoenberg asks for the piccolo to play ppp in the top level of its register ‘ so schwach wie möglich ’ with the bassoon and solo strings at different dynamic levels , and then asks for completely different textures and dynamics in the next variation , I know that this can not be properly realized by an orchestra in a concert-hall seated in the conventional way .
11 What is the point of maintaining a proper legal framework for trade unions if law-breaking unions can not be properly punished by the courts ?
12 But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them .
13 Use as high a magnification as possible , though it is true that the real complexity of the nebula can not be properly seen without a telescope .
14 Even an advanced Intelloid can not be properly programmed with an inclusive appreciation of human laughter-stimulation … ’
15 The content and form of social and economic formations along with institutions can not be properly investigated by projecting preconceived notions .
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