Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when we do return , it shall not be like other travellers , without being able to give one accurate idea of anything . |
| 32 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 33 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 34 | ‘ Decisions about who has access to the gene should not be in private hands in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 35 | One of our concerns is that our ex-service men should not be in temporary accommodation . |
| 36 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 37 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
| 38 | I think , I may not be in perfect shape , but I ai n't gon na run away from you . |
| 39 | As a one-term loser Bush will not be in great demand for £15,000 a time dinner speeches and lectures across the globe . |
| 40 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |
| 41 | To both of them , the human sacrifice of 1914–18 created not just a deep loathing of war but also a determination that such sacrifice should not be in vain . |
| 42 | The onus is surely on the proponents of this ‘ rush for roads ’ to prove that those sacrifices will not be in vain . |
| 43 | His brother in law hopes their efforts will not be in vain . |
| 44 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
| 45 | This attitude also led him to express his distaste for the American-sponsored discussions on world trade , known as the Kennedy Round , that were currently being conducted within GATT : again , he suspected that they would produce a heightened American influence in Europe , something that would not be in Western Europe 's or France 's interests . |
| 46 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
| 47 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
| 48 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
| 49 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |
| 50 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered by but need not be in numerical order . |
| 51 | But , unlike equity investments of the traditional kind , there need not be in NFI arrangements a direct correspondence between the degree of risk assumed by each party and the degree of control exercised by them . |
| 52 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 53 | Do n't be over suspicious and try not to over react — this could be unfair on your child . |
| 54 | Do n't be over ambitious |
| 55 | Now , do n't make it too difficult , the big problem with kids sett setting sheets they that they make it far harder than the teacher ever would so do do n't be over ambitious , let's have a few easy ones to start with , right . |
| 56 | You ca n't be on middle ground , there is no neutral territory . |
| 57 | right , then it wo n't be on blue paper if it was posted but you did put down that two |
| 58 | And there wo n't be for sure . |
| 59 | This Pro-hib-ition , or whatever they call it , is comin' , you mark my words , or the Tally boys would n't be into other ‘ arrangements ’ , as they say , and lookin' to buy cellars and hidey-holes and places behind walls , if ye follow me . |
| 60 | Even if your reasoning is self-evident to you , it wo n't be to other people , who will come at the issue from a slightly ( or very ) different point of view . |