Example sentences of "there [modal v] not [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudinist now asks us to consider whether there may not be sentences which express , in the sense of ‘ express ’ in which factual statements express beliefs , something other than beliefs . |
| 2 | Firstly there may not be time or it may not be physically possible to suddenly introduce a high level operator , for example we can not put a different pilot on the flight deck when an aircraft gets into trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ There must not be attitudes of victory or defeat , but rather a deep sensitivity . ’ |
| 4 | There must not be space for the ferret to get around the outside of the cage and remain free . |
| 5 | It may be simpler for utilitarianism to neglect or ignore the demands of justice and equity , but that is no argument for maintaining that there should not be justice and equity . |
| 6 | There 'll not be time now . |
| 7 | There might not be space for two , and I could hardly turn the other man out now . |
| 8 | There might not be money for Frederick Bissett 's salary or funds enough to supply him with badly needed back-up , but by God , oh yes , there was money for the building programme . |
| 9 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’ |
| 11 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 12 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 13 | a situation relating to a new development under which there would not be damage . |
| 14 | Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) . |
| 15 | In default of a totally homogenised society , it is impossible to imagine a situation where there will not be variation from school to school , from teacher to teacher and from children to children . |
| 16 | No one should ever underestimate the trauma of change on res on residents their relatives and the staff involved , either in the refurbishment programme or in future closers and we have never denied that there will not be closures , we have consistently proposed that there should be . |
| 17 | And then there will not be room at the head of a reformed social system for duds and vipers like North or Castlereagh . |
| 18 | Often there will not be room to connect a downstairs WC soil pipe with the correct fall and a new soil pipe will be needed running directly to the drains . |
| 19 | If you do this during a landing , there will not be time to realise your error . |
| 20 | There will not be time . |
| 21 | But no one , and certainly not Mr. Richards , in argument before us suggests that there can not be others . |
| 22 | There can not be stability while 25 per cent . |
| 23 | But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity . |
| 24 | But there can not be complacency in Downing Street or satisfaction in the country as long as the unemployment figures continue to rise so sharply . |
| 25 | This case makes clear that normally there can not be liability as a constructive trustee merely for ‘ knowing assistance ’ in a fraudulent design if there was no dishonesty or lack of probity on the part of the alleged trustee , and if knowledge would not have been inferred in the circumstances by an honest and reasonable person . |
| 26 | When I say that some of them take [ women compositors ] to be wives , there can not be ill-feeling toward them " . |
| 27 | By the same token , he wrote , in the imagination there can not be movement . |
| 28 | Sir Walter Scott later wrote , ‘ Without courage , there can not be truth ; and without truth there can be no other virtue . ’ |
| 29 | It is an acknowledgement that there can not be certainty but that there are only a limited number of possible event-patterns . |
| 30 | Although Winch contends that there can not be causes for the rules followed or for the intentions and motives of the actors who follow them , other philosophers disagree . |