Example sentences of "not [adv] be done " in BNC.

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1 The dock company obtained planning permission to operate the dock as a commercial port , which can not sensibly be done other than on a 24-hour basis .
2 Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too .
3 In Sussex Justices the court said that " it is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done . "
4 ( 65 ) Justice must not only be done — ( … ) — but must manifestly be seen to be done .
5 It was always our contention that justice should not only be done but that justice should be seen to be done by the due process of the public inquiry .
6 A similar exercise will also be carried out to fix the first review date in outstanding mandatory life sentence cases where this has not already been done .
7 Clean the fish if this has not already been done , and open them out flat .
8 If this has not already been done , the bone fragments should be separated , those of left and right bones being differentiated as far as possible .
9 Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added .
10 This has always been part of the role , but it has not often been done well .
11 Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all .
12 What could they do with more weapons that had n't already been done ?
13 Ah , I was just going to say , if it had n't already been done , erm Friends of the Earth will be perfectly willing to do that . .
14 Even the documents that er UNISON have provided to me , which indicate the shortfall in operations last year will indicate that the job is n't even being done with a fully fledged , let alone a reduced service .
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