Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be absurd , nor contrary to the rule of law , for Parliament to prefer the precise construction adopted by the tribunal to that given by the courts . |
| 2 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 3 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 4 | A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun , divorced from politics . |
| 5 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 6 | But my little ‘ widow , ’ as I called my room mate privately , could not be sad for long . |
| 7 | So that he might not be sad twice . |
| 8 | But the patient may not be competent . |
| 9 | Of course , it was perfectly possible for a nurse to undertake a particular task for all clients and not be competent , with possibly disastrous consequences . |
| 10 | But Lord Robertson disallowed his evidence , firstly because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship ( though Mr Beltrami had already been issued with a waiver for this from the Scottish Law Society ) , secondly because evidence against McGuinness could not be competent as evidence against Waddell . |
| 11 | … It is to be competent where those who control can not be competent , yet it is not to control . |
| 12 | A year later , casting opened for Wayne 's World , and he needed to find a villain who could not be grotesque , but had to be grand . |
| 13 | Polsky argues that this is the main reason why such research should not be covert . |
| 14 | Of course , one can not be adamant about whether they merit the label ‘ murder ’ , because that is a question of drawing the line between murder and manslaughter , which is not susceptible of any precise resolution . |
| 15 | The behaviour of firms need not be conspiratorial in the legal sense . |
| 16 | On the one hand , it would not be equitable , without compensation , at any time and for any reason to remove , or to prohibit the maintenance , replacement , extension or use of an existing building . |
| 17 | Meadowland should not be too far away , though it need not be adjacent to the settlement . |
| 18 | The new space has as many nodes as the original , but often a lot of its nodes will not be accessible . |
| 19 | She would not be sorry to give up the job there . |
| 20 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 21 | He , himself , would not be sorry . |
| 22 | Involving the fire , the exit th there , we actually talked about er , issuing a memo to all the branches and telling them there ought not be electrical equipment on overnight . |
| 23 | However , at least 80 per cent of such jobs were not lost but were retained at least for another day , many in viable foreign TNCs , and it would not be logical to criticize the whole policy because of setbacks . |
| 24 | This can not be logical , and there is some support for landlords who feel justified in requiring the proceeds to be paid to them on the basis that a lease is for a limited duration but the freehold ( where applicable ) is for life . |
| 25 | It is important for the diagnosis of partial relations that the occurrences in unshared syntactic environments should not be distinct senses . |
| 26 | In some specimens the apical papilla may not be distinct while in others there are 1 or 2 large , pointed papillae ; these are flanked by up to 6 flat , pointed or sometimes scale-like oral papillae . |
| 27 | In extreme cases testicles can pop inside the inguinal canal in the groin and not be palpable in the scrotum at all . |
| 28 | The tensioning cables need not be parallel in plan to the suspension cables . |
| 29 | You will have to use a reasonably large drill press to make these holes through the body , otherwise they will not be parallel with each other . |
| 30 | ‘ Do not be ridiculous , ’ said Dinah coldly . |