Example sentences of "it [modal v] not be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be coincidental that two of the long survivors with very low CD4 counts were also the oldest patients in the study , and it remains possible that the genetic background or immune changes responsible for AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis are , with increasing age , more likely to indicate a good prognosis independently of the CD4 count . |
| 2 | Initially it may not be obvious that a component , such as the gearbox cover , is required . |
| 3 | It may not be obvious that order exists in the key sequence , yet it may be present and damaging . |
| 4 | When viewed in this light it should not be surprising that the loudest , most powerful voices being heard in the name of animal welfare — at least in the United States — are those who have a vested interest in the perpetuation of animal exploitation . |
| 5 | With an established Green Party to articulate public anxiety , together with a national rallying point provided by the devastation of forests by acid rain — at least some of which is attributable to vehicle exhaust emission — it should not be surprising that transport has emerged as a ma–or cause of environmental concern in West Germany . |
| 6 | According to the classical view , poetic style is purely decorative , playing no part in communication other than to please the hearer 's aesthetic sense.9 However , this view implies that figurative utterances may be paraphrased without loss of meaning , and as , for example , Coleridge ( 1906 : 263 ) points out , once it is recognised that " language is framed to convey not the object alone , but likewise the character , mood and intentions of the person representing it " , then it should not be surprising that the test of a " blameless style " is its " untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning " . |
| 7 | It could not be true that nervous strain made you lose weight . |
| 8 | It need not be surprising that his efforts involved thought experiments , analogies and illustrative metaphors rather than detailed experimentation . |
| 9 | In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand . |
| 10 | In respect of a job requiring ability to access , input and retrieve information from a computer , it would not be essential that the employee is able to use the keyboard or read the visual display if adaptive equipment or software would enable a disabled person to undertake the work , albeit in a different manner . |
| 11 | It will be aware of its master , in that it hears and smells him , and of its own exertions , in that it is awake , but it will not be aware that it recognises him , for this is of the order of tomorrow 's delayed return — a linguistic belief of which dumb brutes are incapable . |
| 12 | For example , it can not be right that the Government should retain as offices private houses and blocks of flats while homeless families are dossed down in imperfectly converted workhouses , or forced to ‘ squat ’ in Nissen huts . |
| 13 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 14 | In these societies it can not be accidental that as revolt and protest against traditional values and restraints have grown , so too have the means of external coercion represented by police forces , government agencies , legislation , taxation and a generalized bureaucratic regulation of just about every important aspect of the citizen 's life . |
| 15 | In the unconscious , money and gold are universally understood to be symbols of faeces , and it can not be accidental that analysis of individual delusions of persecution shows that the persecuting object is usually the child 's phantasied idea of the paternal phallus as the retained and hardened faecal mass in its bowel . |
| 16 | ‘ In Rockingham Forest , ’ they said , ‘ where the Crown has little property left , where a considerable part of the Land is already in Tillage or pasture , and the Country pretty fully inhabited , it can not be desirable that those ( Forest ) Laws should be continued ’ : their ‘ Restraints and Burthens … by impeding its Improvement , must be a loss to the Public as well as to the Proprietors ’ . |
| 17 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |