Example sentences of "not [be] [adj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 2 | ‘ The climbers had not been able to retrieve their earlier fixed ropes and consequently there was no spare rope which Dave might use . |
| 3 | The TCCB has ruled that counties will not be able to replace their Australian overseas players if they leave to join their country 's tour of Sri Lanka early in August . |
| 4 | Toward 2000 , points out that with the production of fuelwood expected to fall short by 40 per cent , ‘ many poor people will not be able to cook their food adequately . |
| 5 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 6 | They are not mind readers and unless you explain , in some detail , what you are trying to achieve with a particular photograph they will not be able to do their best work . |
| 7 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 8 | Parents may not be able to stop their child 's tantrums altogether , but they can usually reduce the number and intensity of them . |
| 9 | However , without the attendance of a senior member of the family and his appreciation of the value of the training , the younger members might not be able to put their training to best use or to introduce new techniques or ideas on to the farm . |
| 10 | INDEPENDENT firms will not be able to sell their versions of car parts such as panels , windscreens , bumpers and lights if plans by the EC Commission become law , it emerged yesterday . |
| 11 | On the other hand , groups of mixed ability may not be able to conclude their work in the form of a generalised theorem or similar conclusion , if there is one to be found . |
| 12 | Because households do not realize their desired labour supply , they will not be able to achieve their desired demand for goods . |
| 13 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 14 | He said Government restrictions meant that at least half the councils in Scotland would not be able to increase their spending by more than 2.25 per cent . |
| 15 | The debate came the day after Councillor Charles Gray , the president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , gave warning that jobs and services were under threat and that at least half the councils in Scotland would not be able to increase their spending by more than 2.25 per cent . |
| 16 | Patients can not and should not be able to require their doctors to collaborate in their deaths . |
| 17 | They are that the rains are going to cease falling and , because of the restrictions placed on their movement , the Masai will not be able to follow their tradition of moving on . |
| 18 | This was partly due to the imbalance in the sex ratio , which increased steadily from 1871 to 1911 , and dramatically as a result of World War I. This ‘ excess ’ of women caused considerable anguish , particularly in the nineteenth century , because it became inevitable that some women would not be able to fulfil their ‘ natural destiny ’ of marriage and motherhood . |
| 19 | Those wishing to set up are often afraid that they will lose entitlement to benefit and so not be able to meet their families ' basic expenditure . |
| 20 | The vast majority , including many who live there now , will simply not be able to afford their share . |
| 21 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 22 | Erm they say they would not be willing to change their valuation , because that was the valuation er come to by the District Values Office from , so they are not willing to , to come down in price . |
| 23 | It is perhaps fortunate that such events are in fact rare and it would clearly not be ethical to increase their frequency , instead , the ascending portion of the curve which is clearly present will be considered in more detail . |
| 24 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 25 | There had been the slightest tremor in Alice 's voice ; she had been going to say , " We all spent the evening " but remembered in time that " all " might not be prepared to stick their necks out for Jim , if " all " could be reached and warned in time . |
| 26 | In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars , as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings : they should play to the cameras , should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves , and should never make the mistake of reading their questions . |
| 27 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 28 | There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely . |
| 29 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 30 | Many women described the particular pain of not being able to share their tears . |