Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Personal stereos , electronic games , etc. should not be brought to school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet the influence of the socio-economic background alone should not be exaggerated . |
| 5 | The sample forms supplied for information only should not be used . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Be managed to elude our bird because he was running inside a wire retaining fence and so could n't be grabbed by the deadly talons . |
| 14 | Edward Smith from Kempston in Bedford , had originally appeared before magistrates in Milton Keynes as a juvenile , so could n't be named . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thus , the Jews lacked a common language and territory and so could not be counted as a nation . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | However , as these foods also contain fat they have already been incorporated under the goals for fat and so need not be repeated here . |
| 21 | The aims and objectives of Britain 's National Parks , together with the rights and responsibilities vested in National Park Authorities , have been fully described by both the Countryside Commission and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , and so need not be repeated here . |
| 22 | This means also that the umber of the head of a column iteration is always multiplied by zero , an so need not be calculated till the final step . |
| 23 | Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King . |
| 24 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 25 | That restriction suddenly would n't be imposed in the next two or three years , it would be a gradual reduction through to the year two thousand and six . |
| 26 | The Court had in mind information regarding when and by whom the information was received , the fact that distribution lists are maintained separately from the messages sent and so would not be printed out , unless specified , on the paper copy . |
| 27 | Cause might suggest that room is left for the object of causation to produce its effect as a secondary cause reacting to the stimulus of the primary one and so would not be used in these contexts . |
| 28 | Wilson was immediately worried that the rooms she had ready would not be thought adequate , that indeed she did not know if she herself thought they were adequate , and that she would be unable to prepare meals in her feeble condition , but Miss Blagden laid to rest all her anxieties . |
| 29 | The drummer 's th the very stupid one , and the bassist basically ca n't be bothered at all , you know . |
| 30 | Mr Eynon retired from the force two months ago and so ca n't be disciplined . |