Example sentences of "not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those expectations and responsibilities have not been static . |
| 2 | Even Tillett , regarded by many as the British equivalent of Larkin in language and syndicalist beliefs and whose attacks upon more conventional trade union officials twenty years earlier had not been unlike Larkin 's , saw the writing on the wall . |
| 3 | The experience of unemployment has not been exclusive to people who left school under a Conservative Government . |
| 4 | The tears which had not been far away came to the surface . |
| 5 | When the fire fighting and rescue team had crashed the gates and raced into the grounds , the killer pack had not been far away . |
| 6 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |
| 7 | To test this hypothesis further would require selectively cutting these nerves , which , as yet , has not been possible technically . |
| 8 | We are sorry that she wo n't be seen by more but it just has not been possible . |
| 9 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 10 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 11 | It has not been possible to pass the disease on to animals or to human volunteers by inoculation of the organism . |
| 12 | White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness . |
| 13 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 14 | This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record . |
| 15 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 16 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 17 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 18 | In the judge 's view , the auditors should have said ‘ bills receivable include bills … payable by an overseas debtor the credit-worthiness of whom it has not been possible to verify ’ , and ‘ subject to satisfactory recovery of the monies , in our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view ’ . |
| 19 | The new chairman , Dr David Swallow , says that it has not been possible to ascertain the impact of these adjustments on the interim results for the six months ended 30 June 1991 , and the directors consider it would not be practical to restate those results . |
| 20 | However , in July 1986 Guinness announced that ‘ it has not been possible to reach agreement with Sir Thomas Risk and he will not now be invited to join the board , nor therefore be nominated as Non-Executive Chairman ’ . |
| 21 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
| 22 | Until recently , it has not been possible to use the Census to follow a particular group of people through their lives ( but see Fox and Goldblatt above ) , but it is perfectly feasible to study the changing population structure of , say , a particular district . |
| 23 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 25 | Where the shifting of assets and activities from the public to the private sector has not been possible , the government has attempted to subject public organizations ( such as the National Health Service and the administrative sections of Whitehall departments ) to competitive and financial pressures analogous to market pressures under which private businesses operate . |
| 26 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 27 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 28 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 29 | The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home . |
| 30 | If these outcomes had not been possible , would protest by sufficient members have been a significant factor in determining that the organisation had acted contrary to its constitutive treaty ? |