Example sentences of "and this [modal v] not be " in BNC.

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1 People without a car can not reach them ( unless there is a special bus service , and this may not be convenient )
2 They need a background and this may not be available .
3 This example assumes that the prices of kryptonite and phlogiston futures respond by equal proportionate amounts to a change in the general level of market prices , and this may not be the case .
4 There is always the risk that you will be treated as a spokesperson on behalf of lawyers generally and this may not be taken too kindly by your colleagues .
5 But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people .
6 Oceanic crust has a layered structure which shows remarkably little disturbance and this would not be the case if significant deformation had occurred .
7 And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church .
8 And this need not be seen as a particularly innovative piece of verbal transvestism on the part of the Shipman .
9 The load on the UPS has a maximum rating , typically around 250 to 500 watts for a PC , and this must not be exceeded or the UPS will be overloaded .
10 The president of Dunoon and District Hoteliers Association , Bill Taylor , said last night : ‘ The Dunoon Area Tourist Board is due to be dissolved at the end of March and this must not be allowed .
11 It will undoubtedly be somewhat unpleasant if they refuse , but you may have fought long and hard to gain acceptance and this should not be too jeopardised by people who seek to undo your good work .
12 Data analysis is an iterative process : the final model will not be obtained until after a number of tries and this should not be seen as slowness , but care for accuracy .
13 In the case of an unquoted company , the vendor is primarily concerned as to the marketability of the shares and this should not be underestimated .
14 MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife .
15 Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone .
16 Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching .
17 A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected .
18 The sterility of absolute atheism completely denies the realisation of any hopes of the existence of such a power , and this can not be acceptable .
19 In East Norfolk , for example , where I live , I have seen the fox population increase very substantially indeed since that time and this can not be coincidental .
20 What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released .
21 This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection .
22 Therefore there should be little surprise that Freud first links this compulsion to repeat pain on to the non-sexual instincts , for it must have some instinctual base , and this can not be the life-affirming sexual instincts , for they do seem to operate on the pleasure principle par excellence .
23 Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum .
24 To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin .
25 Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy .
26 We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause .
27 Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world .
28 It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved .
29 But law should be fair and just and this can not be .
30 Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment .
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