Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [vb pp] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was plain that this could not be regarded as a trust of the estate in favour of her sister , who was coheir , since the testator wanted not to dispose of his own money but on the pretext of advice to derogate from her rights by prohibiting her from making a will .
2 Such payments will not be regarded as a provision of income by the beneficiary provided the trust deed permits such payments and interest is paid on the amount effectively loaned to the capital account .
3 President Mikhail Gorbachev , commenting on the letter in a speech to a meeting of Komsomol ( Young Communist League ) activists in Moscow on April 10 , stated that it should not be regarded as a call for a party purge , but that people at odds with CPSU policy should leave the party voluntarily .
4 ‘ UDCs can not be regarded as a success if buildings and land are regenerated but the local community are by-passed and do not benefit from regeneration ’ .
5 we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on
6 If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success .
7 But yet it should not be regarded as a quirk development , but as part of that to which the other more familiar aspects of the religion are pointing .
8 However , it is important to stress that Sport 2000 should not be regarded as a Council strategy , rather it belongs to all who are committed to the future of sport in Scotland .
9 In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens .
10 While failure to establish an effective Teachers ' Council supports the view that teaching can not be regarded as a profession , the establishment of such a Council would be fraught with administrative difficulties .
11 At the same time the deaf and dumb should not be regarded as a class incapable of expressing opinions concerning their welfare or of safeguarding and promoting their own interests .
12 Nevertheless , until direct evidence of such an effect has been obtained through the supplementary use of IPV , combined schedules should not be regarded as a substitute for the proven strategy of mass vaccination campaigns for the global eradication programme .
13 It can not be regarded as a matter of indifference whether the unfilled portions of the world shall be peopled by Eastern races , by negroes , by Slavonic or other Eastern European peoples , by the Latin races , or by the races of Northern Europe .
14 ( c ) A separate practice as a notary public operated by a solicitor in conjunction with his or her practice as a solicitor shall not be regarded as a business ‘ other than a solicitor 's practice ’ for the purpose of this rule .
15 Although certain details of the painting do coincide almost exactly with features of other works by Neroccio , the work as a whole can not be regarded as a copy .
16 For a senior job it should not be regarded as a burden to see 12 people and then draw up a short list of three or four .
17 ( ii ) The word " irreducible " is a good one for elements with the property listed in 1.3.5(ii) since according to that definition an irreducible element is one which can not be represented as a product of two properly " smaller " elements .
18 It should not be registered as a nursing home .
19 Another judge-made rule is that in Tyrrell ( 1894 ) , which provides that a person can not be convicted as a party to an offence if the offence was created for the protection of such persons .
20 Thus , in cases where a young girl or young boy of 15 leads an adult into sexual activity , the youth can not be convicted as a party to either unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 or indecent assault ( as the case may be ) .
21 He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence .
22 It should not be assumed as a matter of course that such use of part of a dwellinghouse necessarily involves a material change of use requiring permission .
23 Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter .
24 But there is no reason why the doctrine of justice actually reflected by the constitutional arrangements of a state may not be reached as a result of people realizing that their different ideals of the good , each leading to a different doctrine of justice , can not be implemented because of the widespread disagreement in society concerning their value .
25 It will not be reached as a result of any programmed present redundancies , or by any new contracts with the generating industries , because they will not be renewed until early 1993 .
26 However , the transaction by which the end result was sought could not be characterised as a sale of land with finished buildings thereon .
27 Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state .
28 Although there are numbers that can not be expressed as a sum of three squares , for instance 7 , Gauss had managed to find the number of expressions when they do exist .
29 The equations of general relativity , which relate the curvature of space-time with the distribution of mass and energy , can not be defined as a singularity .
30 Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions .
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