Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , it may not represent a hiatal hernia as reported by Lauren and Cauthorne , who showed that these mucosal rings occur near the upper margin of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 2 | It may not appoint a legal guardian for the child or consent to an adoption order or an order freeing the child for adoption or providing for his adoption abroad ( s33(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 3 | It could also be questioned whether a system of specialised representatives is desirable in that it may not produce a group of people willing to take an overall view of the question . |
| 4 | It may not produce a positive result . |
| 5 | While it may not provide a specific remedy for the complainant , it can force public bodies to alter policy and procedure . |
| 6 | It may not sound a very high-tech process , but it is still the one used today for sheet of the very highest quality . |
| 7 | That it may not have a name . |
| 8 | Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site . |
| 9 | Said because it should n't have a chimney on it ! |
| 10 | The onus is on the individual claiming the single-person discount to inform the local authority and there is no reason why it should not conduct a canvass to establish who will be claiming that discount . |
| 11 | It should not involve a fundamental alteration of the position 's particular requirements . |
| 12 | Echoing a view widespread among the developing country members , Mugabe said that while democracy must be their " pervading principle " , it should not become a " sacrosanct " condition of aid . |
| 13 | Ramsey did not see why it should not have a wider interest as in Henson 's day . |
| 14 | The British Technology Group should be there to support them — but it should not have a monopoly on Britain 's brains . |
| 15 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 16 | Here , difficulties can be experienced , and although it should not pose a problem with clients with whom the conveyancer is familiar , it can cause potential difficulty with new clients , particularly those who may be unknown and live some distance from the practising address . |
| 17 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 18 | It must n't become a new focus for fascists . |
| 19 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 20 | So I headed back , realising that plans to combine Beinn an Dothaidh should be abandoned since the view would be remarkably similar from its summit , although it might not boast a ring pull . |
| 21 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 22 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 23 | It might not induce a particular favour from a police constable but then , as now , it ensured a level of co-operation . |
| 24 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
| 25 | Here Laski was highly critical of the abstract legal idea of absolute legal sovereignty , arguing that it could not form a realistic basis for political relationships . |
| 26 | In doing so it probably aroused some sympathy among the Party membership , though it could not prevent a movement which was receiving support from national figures . |
| 27 | Although the Commission is a statutory body with a wide remit to promote the interests of crofters , it is so tightly bound by the rule of ‘ ultra vires ’ and treasury control , that it could not devote a minuscule sum to an experiment the results of which were endorsed by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the North and Highland Division , who wrote ‘ I should very much like to see continued the special educational merits of the scheme , challenge without competition , linkage of school and community in common effort , availability of expert advice to schools as they link theory with practice , financial assistance for bigger Projects , commitments which continue ’ . |
| 28 | When the company announced on January 16th that it would close the New York Daily News within 60 days if it could not settle a crippling strike at the newspaper , Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief and the company 's share price soared . |
| 29 | In the event that it could not locate a world in reasonable proximity which possessed both a breathable atmosphere and acceptable conditions of gravity and temperature , a pod was capable of maintaining its passenger in a state of suspended animation for an almost indefinite period . |
| 30 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |