Example sentences of "it [vb mod] not be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 When the Rump was restored in May , he appeared before it to urge that the government ‘ may not be too long trusted in any man 's hands : that it may not be perpetuated to men ’ .
2 Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ .
3 It should not be tethered to subjects that do not interest it but like the whole organism , it must find what is its bent and true interest and follow that all its life .
4 He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either .
5 Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country .
6 The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising .
7 Research is being carried out on that , but it should be speeded up and it should not be left to police officers to buy such body protection .
8 In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else .
9 This view would appear to contain much sense ; but it must not be taken to the extreme .
10 Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate .
11 Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker .
12 Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC .
13 It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits .
14 It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future .
15 It need not be confined to the written word — symbols such as the swastika , and other offensive images will suffice .
16 Heysel occurred at a ground so dilapidated it would not be cleared to stage Fourth Division matches in this country .
17 It would not be applied to someone who uses the house as their family home but works away from home for most of the week , ’ said Mr Soley .
18 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
19 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
20 The initial verb + noun phrase combination shows in essence a property word extended by an entity word , and it therefore remains a ( complex ) property ; the adjective then further extends this property ; but because it is an adjective rather than an adverb , its own property is understood as applicable to the entity identified by the noun phrase , with the important reservation , demanded by the intensional structure , that it will not be applied to it unconditionally but only insofar as that entity stands in relation to the verb which accompanies it .
21 The product will initially be available for FDDI only , but according to Mike Patricks , DEC 's wide area networking marketing manager , the switch is capable of accepting an Asynchronous Transfer Mode module , and its multi-switching capability means that it will not be limited to one device .
22 That will be organised through the Western European Union and it will not be subordinated to the European Community .
23 It buys minority stakes , usually of less than 10% , and stresses that the stake is friendly — that is , it will not be sold to a hostile bidder .
24 The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent .
25 This outward aggression , however , if it can not be expressed to the object has to be turned inwards in depression , which is anger turned back upon the person .
26 It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these .
27 Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such .
28 And much as we can love our children , friends or pets , it can not be compared to sharing intimacy with a lover , especially when you have been used to the sounds , smells and physical qualities that brings .
29 Please ensure that all money submitted , whether as cash or cheque , by hand or by post is accompanied by a clear statement as to what it represents e.g. Q.T. fees , payment for music lessons , subscriptions to the Society , donations etc. etc — because , one an amount has been credited to a certain account it can not be transferred to another .
30 If balance is important it can not be limited to public television .
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