Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Leapor 's struggle against a division of labour in which her poetic talents could not be developed should not be read as a repudiation of domestic service as an institution . |
| 2 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 3 | It issues " D " notices advising that those matters listed should not be published as they require to remain secret for security reasons . |
| 4 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 5 | But the possibilities of devilling must not be exaggerated . |
| 6 | They should remind their opposite numbers that their own parliamentarians — the French , Germans , and Italians — all subscribed to the view that the defence issue to which I referred should not be brought within the European Community . |
| 7 | The other amendments in the group deal with the resale of the businesses themselves , which we suggest should not be done without the consent of employees in the undertakings . |
| 8 | The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied . |
| 9 | Sir : In the debate about the funding of higher education , it is essential that the purpose of the universities and of the education that they provide should not be neglected . |
| 10 | There are no specific hydrophobic contacts to thymine methyl groups such as those observed in other complexes , but there are sites in the operator where a mutation to thymine could not be accommodated owing to steric hindrance . |
| 11 | When we turn to A Very British Coup , it is clear that the approaches which allowed mainstream critics to exclude any ‘ extraneous talk of politics ’ in reviews of Distant Voices , Still Lives could not be applied here , for this is a film which does little else than talk of politics . |
| 12 | That if the rent hereby reserved or any part thereof shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the same shall have become due ( whether formally demanded or not ) or if any covenant on the part of the Tenant herein contained shall not be performed or observed or if the Tenant shall become bankrupt or enter into any composition with his creditors it shall be lawful for the Landlord to re-enter upon the premises or any point thereof in the name of the whole and thereupon this demise shall absolutely determine . |
| 13 | ‘ What you do n't know ca n't be forced from you , sweet Alix . |
| 14 | In many cases it will be impossible to make sufficient disclosure at the commencement of the relationship as material information which has to be disclosed will not be known and can not be predicted until a particular conflict arises . |
| 15 | Information contained will not be released to any source . |
| 16 | The person to whom it is addressed can not be expected to conduct a minute linguistic analysis of what is said to him where this is accompanied by aggressive gestures . |
| 17 | Any shortcomings or faults the final Directive has can not be levelled solely at our Community partners ; the UK government played an important role in both fashioning and broadening the scope of the Directive . |
| 18 | The support our volunteers provide can not be measured in purely practical terms and their continuing contribution is vital if we are to provide an ongoing service . |
| 19 | However , after the case was over I confess to having cheated and done what the voices of infallibility , myself among them , have said must not be done in construing legislation : I looked at Hansard . |
| 20 | ( He continued to insist , nonetheless , that that one-sidedness had been necessary , and that the negative points he had made must not be withdrawn , nor even weakened , but merely held together with the positive . |
| 21 | It is one thing to provide ( as in section 6(3) ( b ) ) that in the absence of special arrangements parental preferences is to prevail over a desire to keep places vacant on , for example , religious grounds : it is quite another to say that when some parental preferences are to be denied in any event as must be the case under section 6(3) ( a ) ) the choice of those parental preferences which are to prevail and those which are to be defeated should not be based on religious criteria . |
| 22 | The DTI is currently proceeding with the 14th Round of Oil/Gas Licensing through which it is selling oil companies the permission to explore many blocks of seabed which the Government 's official advisers on nature conservation have said should not be disturbed or put at risk in this way . |
| 23 | BR 4 , 19. proverb , something else which the … says must not be told of afterwards , i.e. a kiss , a reference to the traditional proverb about the reprehensibility of kissing and telling . |
| 24 | Virtually nothing that Great Aycliffe Town Council undertakes could n't be done equally efficiently and at much less overall cost by Sedgefield District . |
| 25 | However , the transaction by which the end result was sought could not be characterised as a sale of land with finished buildings thereon . |
| 26 | The impropriety of coming to the court when political capital was sought to be made could not be overstressed . |
| 27 | Writing has the effect of distancing the speaker from the hearer ; what is said need not be suited to the requirements of the listener because the listener is absent . |
| 28 | but there was n't said at the council , they said that they realize that what there has to be done ca n't be done so , so quickly , you see the past in what er back end of October |
| 29 | Normally it 's our job to dig , study , catalogue , understand the past , but when you see that what you have uncovered ca n't be protected , that this whole complex which is the heart and birth-place of the city can be destroyed in a moment , you feel quite sick . |
| 30 | I hope that all hon. Members will accept that that is the motivation behind the clause ; it is a last resort provision which we hope will not be required . |