Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music of the ever-receding margins , the music over which we have a claim , should be not just anti-soul ( against intimations of health , the centrality of the body , straighttalking , wholesomeness ) but anti-irony ( the raised eyebrow , the quotation marks ) . |
| 2 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 3 | There is also the argument that the fathers of children may kill whilst overwhelmed by the stress consequent upon the arrival of a new child , and they should be not be left outside the law of infanticide . |
| 4 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 5 | Local groups , joined in a network , together and with St William 's and its agents , should be not only validators of priorities ; they should also become centres of influence and information in local communities , in a stronger position than ever before to influence institutional government . |
| 6 | It was important , bearing in mind private viewing , that bodies should be not only as wholesome as possible but also as well dressed ; and dressed not only in a material according to social status but also in as well upholstered a coffin as funds would permit . |
| 7 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 8 | The king , of course , was the chief prize of Poitiers , and Edward intended that the price of his release should be not only a substantial ransom but also a definitive peace with France : the gains of battle needed to be consolidated by a diplomatic success . |
| 9 | Non-availability of the system due to software or equipment failures during normal working hours should be not greater than 2% taken over a three month rolling average . |
| 10 | A third , unstated constant was that each of the four women would look at the camera , and that each should be not just physically but psychologically present … |
| 11 | The second review should be not later than nine hours after the first ( i.e. 15 hours after the detention ) . |
| 12 | It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say . |
| 13 | In the parish of Norton-by-Twycross , on the borders of Warwickshire and Leicestershire , the award of 1748 specifies that the road to London , which is here the main road between Burton-on-Trent and Atherstone , should be not less than thirty-three yards wide . |
| 14 | It is important that there should be not only a record of the climates of the past on all time scales , but also a continuing record of short-term fluctuations of climate ( variations over a few years ) coordinated on a global scale . |
| 15 | It really is not right or fair that legislative provisions of real substance should be not only practically inaccessible but should be left in the hands of some virtually unsupervised departmental draftsman . |
| 16 | It may accept a submission with or without qualification , or it may recommend that it should be not proceeded with in the current session . |
| 17 | It is important that food should be not only dispatched but distributed to those who need it . |
| 18 | I and I daresay others round this table , have experience of other counties who 've adopted that approach , or other panels who 've adopted that approach and it creates endless problems and endless appeals debating what is a windfall and what should be in the plan and what should be not . |
| 19 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 20 | There are some people who say abortion is murder , it should be not allowed |
| 21 | But it was what the executive council thought the increase in wages should be not what the members thought . |
| 22 | The rooms must be not quite square . |
| 23 | The pubs had not let out yet , so it must be not be later than eleven . |
| 24 | The ride itself must be not less than 6 feet ( 1.8 metres ) wide so that the rabbits run across that gap before hitting the net . |
| 25 | Being a man myself , the similarity by which I recognize as a man must be not only to others previously classified as men but to myself ; I assume , and when close enough to read expression and gesture simulate , thought and emotion like mine , turning his observed behaviour inside out . |
| 26 | A song must be not only ‘ familiar ’ but also ‘ new ’ — that is , must stimulate attention — and this contradiction is surmounted by introducing ‘ pseudo-individualized ’ effects ( which at the same time , of course , reinforce the ideology of ‘ creativity ’ and ‘ uniqueness ’ necessary for cultural goods ) . |
| 27 | That time must be not more than four business days before the date fixed for the meeting ( r6.79(4) ) . |
| 28 | The notice must specify the last date for proving which must be not less than twenty-one days after the date of the notice ( r 11.2(2) ) . |
| 29 | I think I must be not looking at the list or not reading half the stuff . |
| 30 | It lies at the heart of Europe , which means that we must be not in a minority of one but right there where the decisions are made . |