Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 2 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 3 | ( symbolic action should not have to be explained ! ) |
| 4 | The defendant would not appear to be represented , therefore the committal will have to be dealt with by the way of reading out all the statements . |
| 5 | If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future . |
| 6 | One such seat would not seem to be an excessive demand in pursuit of an accepted objective , but it was more than the Conference would accept . |
| 7 | Apart from all else the concentration required to hear mentally an orchestral passage while seated in a bus or train or standing in the Underground can not fail to be beneficial . |
| 8 | And in Korea , the repression of opposition parties and of student and workers ' protest suggested that policies suitable to early phases of industrialisation might not continue to be so acceptable . |
| 9 | The management should n't try to be one of the boys . ’ |
| 10 | If all else fails , then throwing the air pump out of the window might not prove to be such a bad idea after all . |
| 11 | Unfortunately insufficient members turned up to achieve a quorum , but ex-chairman , Robin Brookes , took the opportunity to state that the guild could not continue to be run on a rotation of volunteers . |
| 12 | It does stress , however , that " existing equipment would not have to be instantly scrapped and replaced by untested prototypes . |
| 13 | Despite earlier fears , the Baltic Exchange will not have to be demolished and is to be repaired at the cost of about £80 million . |
| 14 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , sport can not afford to be soft on those who cause the problems — whether it is athletes who , as drug users , habitually cheat , or the spectators who take the law into their own hands and invade football pitches . |
| 16 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |
| 17 | For example , the last syllable of teacher may not need to be distinguished in the tree until the addition of another word of two or more syllables such as tedious . |
| 18 | However , as the Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) pointed out : ‘ The contribution to be expected from any likely postponement of retirement would not appear to be large in relation to total available manpower . ’ |
| 19 | If your wife 's total income is less than her personal allowance she can apply to have the building society interest paid gross , so that tax will not have to be reclaimed . |
| 20 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 21 | The international community can not afford to be complacent , assuming that if the United Nations peacekeeping force is there that everything will go according to plan . |
| 22 | Reforming officials within both the prison system and the criminal justice process can not afford to be merely reactive . |
| 23 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |
| 24 | The selectivity may not need to be absolute — for example , if the promoter is specifically activated in breast epithelial tissue it may be possible to produce a ‘ genetic mastectomy , ’ effectively destroying all normal as well as malignant breast cells . |
| 25 | Whether racing or cruising , the most critical crew could not fail to be anything other than delighted with this yacht 's performance . |
| 26 | However inversion would not appear to be particularly appropriate given the actual data involved in this case . |
| 27 | My answer to that would be that er since the only permissible reason for pushing out this inset boundary would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built development , and built development would not seem to be within er the possibility of er Policy E N V One as well as within the possibility of er other policies |
| 28 | The therapist can not expect to be able to do it easily and accurately straightaway or every time . |
| 29 | To adapt to the increasing complexities of modern business life , an organisation can not afford to be a sluggish bureaucracy . |
| 30 | While the recommendations of the Code may not have to be followed in every case , tribunals hearing unfair dismissal claims are entitled to take note of any breach of the Code . |