Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now the detailed structure of these lexical sets in English and French , although of intense concern to students of English and French , can not be generalised to other sets ; nor can the semantic contrast ‘ have an experience in a particular perceptual mode ’ v . |
| 32 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 33 | This complexity must not be reduced to simple hypocrisy , although there is of course some of that . |
| 34 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 35 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 36 | The EAGGF Guarantee and Guidance expenditure can be allocated , but administrative expenditure upon the institutions of the EC , or aid to Third World countries can not be allocated to particular member states . |
| 37 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 38 | They need not be subjected to obtrusive or distressing questions that may have no relevance to their illness , and no one will be singled out for discriminatory treatment . |
| 39 | The Company holds personal information on its employees on computer files and , in accordance with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1984 , undertakes that such information will only be used for purposes relevant to your employment with the Company and will not be disclosed to other bodies without your permission . |
| 40 | Any information so discovered must be confined to the authority empowered by the warrant to discover it , and may not be disclosed to private persons or private bodies . |
| 41 | The bond market , for example , may not be opened to foreign competition until 1995 . |
| 42 | Stand tickets would not be issued to non-Wasp supporters until after 2pm . |
| 43 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 44 | This need not be confined to salaried partners as such , but could be extended to all ; for example , introducing a salary scale based on age and experience comparable with Civil Service pay at its administrative grades with an equal division of surplus profits . |
| 45 | This internal dialogue will not be confined to technical questions framed within the discipline . |
| 46 | Truth can not be confined to traditional religions , nor can any particular religion claim to have a monopoly of Truth , for where that kind of particularization of the Ultimate takes place , we are face to face with what Tillich calls demonization . |
| 47 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 48 | Criticism and debate are to be welcomed , however , and should not be confined to academic circles . |
| 49 | Secondly , the switch to khozraschet meant that the press had to attract paying subscribers , who wanted to read about their own regions and not be submitted to generalized and boring directives from Moscow all the time . |
| 50 | An ambivalence to assessment in Catholic schools rightly stems from the view that religious education in its entirety can not be submitted to formal and sharply focussed testing because of its very nature and its concern with personal faith and commitment . |
| 51 | Use of oral history , for instance , should not be restricted to Key Stage 1 . |
| 52 | First , individual households will not be restricted to nuclear families , i.e. parents and their children . |
| 53 | The social system is dynamic and our models of language must take account of this and not be restricted to idealised models of ‘ literal meaning ’ . |
| 54 | While reiterating that the demand for international inspections of North Korea 's nuclear facilities could not be linked to other issues , the government stated its willingness to discuss the nuclear issue " for the purposes of reducing tension and building confidence " . |
| 55 | They called upon North Korea to submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities as an act of compliance with international law , stressing that the issue could not be linked to other matters such as the payment of Japanese compensation for Korea 's pre-1945 colonization . |
| 56 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 57 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 58 | Previous studies have not investigated the role of population mixing in the Dounreay-Thurso area , though they have shown that the excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma there can not be attributed to paternal nuclear employment or irradiation before the child 's conception . |
| 59 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 60 | The full extent of the modern acidification , however , can not be attributed to changed land use . |