Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 2 | But my little ‘ widow , ’ as I called my room mate privately , could not be sad for long . |
| 3 | Of course , one can not be adamant about whether they merit the label ‘ murder ’ , because that is a question of drawing the line between murder and manslaughter , which is not susceptible of any precise resolution . |
| 4 | The behaviour of firms need not be conspiratorial in the legal sense . |
| 5 | Meadowland should not be too far away , though it need not be adjacent to the settlement . |
| 6 | In extreme cases testicles can pop inside the inguinal canal in the groin and not be palpable in the scrotum at all . |
| 7 | You will have to use a reasonably large drill press to make these holes through the body , otherwise they will not be parallel with each other . |
| 8 | The tensioning cables need not be parallel in plan to the suspension cables . |
| 9 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 10 | Even so self-sufficiency would not be possible without a fall in oil demand by the end of the century . |
| 11 | Consequently , early systems were unsuccessful , and the realisation that effective MT would not be possible without fundamental work on text understanding led to a cutback in funding . |
| 12 | As apparent from the preceding description of likely examination and collateralization practices , these practices will not be possible without secure , reliable and quick access to the relevant information , whether in the form of an open ended message or a certification . |
| 13 | That would not be possible without a memory faculty , which can remember times , locations , numbers , and other information . |
| 14 | Earlier than most Americans he saw that this might not be possible without some American involvement . |
| 15 | In a letter he wrote : ‘ The smooth and effective running of non-urgent patient transport services would not be possible without the very considerable efforts of those volunteers . |
| 16 | Such a prosperous future will not be possible under the common agricultural policy , which is fundamentally flawed and incapable of the satisfactory reform that the Government would like to see . |
| 17 | Conservative Central Office will be able to make much of the suggestion that , under a Labour administration , secondary picketing would once again be lawful , that unions which ignored the courts would no longer face the possibility of sequestration and that it would not be possible for employers or other interested parties to apply for interim injunctions postponing precipitate strikes . |
| 18 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 19 | The judge was told it might not be possible for the trial to take place if the officers ' identities were not protected . |
| 20 | While reporting strong inquiry levels , he said orders were still quiet and warned it would not be possible for the European automated systems business to sustain its 1991 performance this year . |
| 21 | You will accept that , in the circumstances , it will not be Possible for the subject to come here . ’ |
| 22 | In this case it will not be possible for the parish or cathedral to pass the resolution referred to above . |
| 23 | Please note that there is no overture in this programme and it will probably not be possible for latecomers to be admitted before the interval . |
| 24 | While she waited , she had rehearsed what she considered a dignified little speech for Sister Ignatia , explaining that , for this first term , it would not be possible for her to pay the fees in advance , as was customary , but that she would … |
| 25 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 26 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 27 | Since it may not be possible for both sets of belief to be realised in action , if the courses of action are incompatible , it may be rational for one person to give up his/her autonomy . |
| 28 | The third lesson is that it will not be possible for humanists to take full stock of what the computer has to offer to their disciplines until the study of statistics becomes a normal and inescapable part of the training of those who plan an academic career in the humanities . |
| 29 | Thus , in Hanson v. Church Commissioners it was held that where the matter was one in which there was a wider public interest it may not be possible for one party to withdraw without the assent of the other once the proceedings were begun . |
| 30 | Given the increasing difficulty which the local authorities are experiencing in offering financial help to their institutions , especially to those polytechnics in urban areas where their parent authorities are under greater pressure from the Department of the Environment to keep rate increases down , it may not be possible for the public sector institutions , try as they may , to keep up their student numbers . |