Example sentences of "not be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Oh Taurus Since you may not be capable capable , qualified or experienced enough to deal with certain matters , even partners , family matters or legal advices to act on your behalf , and there lies your problem , because some of your plans maybe go up in smoke unless you get actively involved , so legal matters needs to be
2 I told her you 'd not be best pleased to see her , but she insisted on staying , as I said before . ’
3 Cecil would not be best pleased to learn that we have agreed .
4 Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening .
5 There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year .
6 There 'll not be many Gaelic speakers left here now .
7 There can not be many missing girls of her class .
8 So if species have a capacity for adaptation to small-scale environmental change built in , could there not be other potential changes hidden within the mosaic of form and function , both subtle and dense , we call a species ?
9 One final point on the relationship of social class to crime : it may not be low social class in itself which is associated with crime , but rather that low social class is liable to be linked with other factors , perhaps parental criminality , deprivation or inadequacy of some kind , which might predispose individuals brought up in certain social classes toward criminality .
10 Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status .
11 However what are relevant considerations or proper purposes will often not be self evident .
12 These results suggest , however , that there may not be complete colonic metaplasia and that the mucin changes and other phenotypic alterations may represent a non-specific response to pouch inflammation and not a prerequisite for the development of pouchitis .
13 In this context , it may very well be that several of the mammalian Oct proteins described , except for Oct-1 and -2 , may not be true octamer-binding proteins .
14 This means that there are feasible solutions with , but if we were to add z 1 a o as a constraint by treating the z 1 -row as a tableau row and incorporating a z 2 -row , the resulting tableau would not be primal feasible ( and may also be dual infeasible ) .
15 If too few , there will not be enough new products .
16 I argued that on some occasions there might simply not be enough acoustic information to make a decision , and cited psycholinguistic experiments on the intelligibility of words in certain contexts .
17 However , unless the pond has a very low stocking level , there will not be enough natural food available to maintain the fish in good condition .
18 But there will certainly not be another overnight free-for-all .
19 If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month .
20 There can not be another omnipotent god , in the way that there can not be two monarchs or two presidents or two tallest men .
21 Apart from using supplementary outside orders as a flexible cushion in recessions , large firms can also maximize the gains from small-firm specialization where production need not be capital intensive .
22 And there may not be any magical answers out there . ’
23 ‘ There should not be any private schools .
24 THERE was a time when , with other sides refusing to travel to Dublin because of ‘ the Troubles ’ and English skipper declared after a drubbing on Irish soil , ‘ We may not be any good — but at least we turn up . ’
25 George understood that being over-protective towards Lennie would not be any good for him .
26 Third , there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and " fuller versions " when it is replaced by a clause ; for example , consider : ( 31 ) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest ; Ernest was guilty ( 32 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case , for instance , there may not be any strong beef tea at all ; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point .
27 Really , there should not be any collapsed scrummages during the 80 minutes of play .
28 ‘ There should not be any great difficulty getting places in state schools but the situation varies from area to area , ’ a spokesman said .
29 I mean , the one is just , so it may not be any great compliment to say that the cow has an equal chance erm but , but I , I actually do n't know the answer to that one , whether thought that
30 When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished .
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