Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this is that suitable up-to-date information on employment , prices , etc. may not be immediately available , partly because it takes time for such data to be collated . |
| 2 | For example , the provision of emergency services locally may not be a matter of choice , although there are , no doubt , choices relating to the nature and extent of emergency cover , eg number of accident and emergency units in a given geographical area and the extent of 24 hours a day , 7 days a week cover . |
| 3 | We want the Government to think carefully and respond positively to our recommendations , because we are anxious that the rate of increase in the Budget from now on should not be jacked up by the powerful lobby of the industry and the influence that it can exert on the Government . |
| 4 | Personal stereos , electronic games , etc. should not be brought to school . |
| 5 | All the measures proposed by Mr Lamont to pull the UK out of the slump — particularly on housing , construction , cars and company tax incentives — are bang on target but there is a strong suspicion that the billions he has pumped in may not be quite enough . |
| 6 | Unfortunately natural enemies alone may not be sufficiently effective , especially in annual crops where climate or agricultural practices destroy these enemies at a critical period . |
| 7 | Reviews of school smoking prevention programmes have shown continuing success in delaying onset of smoking , but school health education alone may not be sufficient to compensate for other substantial influences on teenage smoking behaviour . |
| 8 | Instability was common in the those who were unobstructed as well as those were obstructed , and we felt that really clinical evaluation alone may not be enough to suggest who needs surgery and who does n't . |
| 9 | Similarly ( b ) alone may not be sufficient as the courts have laid down principles which effectively restrict the time for which any such covenant can run and also the geographical area it can cover . |
| 10 | All staff must be aware that they are confidential and so must not be the topic of gossip . |
| 11 | It would be naive for anyone to suggest that politicians in should not be seeking to gain the maximum advantage from the European Community . |
| 12 | Yet the influence of the socio-economic background alone should not be exaggerated . |
| 13 | Survival figures indicate that age alone should not be a bar to specialist referral or treatment . |
| 14 | Provided then that function of the anal sphincter is confirmed to be normal before operation and is kept ormal at operation by preservation of the entire anal sphincter , we suggest that age alone should not be regarded as an absolute contraindication to the use of restorative proctocolectomy . |
| 15 | The sample forms supplied for information only should not be used . |
| 16 | If the supposed punisher does not weaken a specified undesirable behaviour then it is not a punisher at all and so should not be used . |
| 17 | Such an approach attempts to reduce air pollution to the greatest extent possible with the practical methods available , but maintains that the cost of doing so should not be unreasonable . |
| 18 | Supposing you knew of somebody you thought , ‘ So and so 'll not be here long ’ , you 'd get a policy on 'em . |
| 19 | Perhaps might not be it , ca n't , you ca n't wave a magic wand and say everything 's but they might not . |
| 20 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 21 | Since the monarch obviously could not be subjected to a direct barrage of demand from all comers , certain informal roads to royal favour came to be established , controlled by gate-keepers with access to the sovereign . |
| 22 | To glamorise the whole thing ( the car obviously could not be kept at the camp ) , it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage , possibly in Aston Clinton , which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton . |
| 23 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 24 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 25 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 26 | Thus , the Jews lacked a common language and territory and so could not be counted as a nation . |
| 27 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 28 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 29 | The only real snag was that venues were posted in advance to assist the spectators and so could not be changed to suit the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 30 | Histamine at concentrations greater than 10 - 6 M were shown to affect the viability of the cells in the in vitro culture system and so could not be examined satisfactorily . |