Example sentences of "[modal v] not [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the idea ( how did it come to me ? ) that it must not simply be glass but big glass . |
| 2 | Should not just be managers who identify what issues will be consulted on . |
| 3 | Well it should n't just be men , men , you know , it should be women as well . |
| 4 | Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate |
| 5 | ‘ I may not yet be family , but I do know enough about you to know you do n't have a stepbrother . ’ |
| 6 | The identity and classification a child chooses may not be ones which are obvious to an adult observer , and may not even be ones which the child himself is able to verbalise . |
| 7 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 8 | Queens and kings may not always be objects of moral rectitude , but their right to rule is sacramental before it is practical . |
| 9 | As the resulting data estimates may not always be 100% accurate , an important part of the research involves measuring typical levels of error that result . |
| 10 | There may not always be Summers Of Love , winters of Punk , Acid House explosions and Madchester madnesses , but there is always great and exciting ( new and old ) music out there . |
| 11 | Do n't so we use a little star on the atom , and it may not always be carbon , cos we do n't get this sort of isomerism , indeed , like compounds as well . |
| 12 | It could not however be appeal since section 441(3) precluded appeal and such a limit was expressly authorised . |
| 13 | IRA terrorists could not also be members of the Catholic Church , the Bishop of Down and Connor , Dr Cahal Daly , told mourners at a Northern Ireland funeral yesterday . |
| 14 | There is only one true God.Jesus , while he was a great and good man , could not possibly be God . |
| 15 | Specialist practitioners need not just be solicitors . |
| 16 | For as the George Bush example shows , by contrast , neutral terms ( for example , citizen ) need not always be nonsexist . |
| 17 | Open learning involves an individualised approach to meeting the needs of the learner ; he or she need not then be part of a larger formal group treated as one unit . |
| 18 | Certain persons who would not otherwise be customers are treated as customers for the purposes of the COB Rules . |
| 19 | But he then went on to indicate that Britain would not necessarily be part of the new Europe when he said ‘ Great Britain , the British Commonwealth , mighty America , and I trust Soviet Russia … must be friends and sponsors of the new Europe and must champion its right to live and shine ’ . |
| 20 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 21 | ‘ It ca n't surely be Temptation . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They ca n't really be friends , ’ said Bernice as she worked on repairs to the faulty connection . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it was awfully cheap : it 'll probably fall to bits , it ca n't really be cashmere . |
| 24 | A failure to apologise , or to publish a retraction , will not normally be evidence of malice , but rather of consistency in holding sincere views . |
| 25 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 26 | Managers will not usually be specialists in accounting or finance , for instance , but will more likely be generalists who can rotate between positions ( Kagono et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | There will not always be critics and the rest , just as there will not always be man and the rest . |
| 28 | There will not always be critics and the rest , just as there will not always be man and the rest . |
| 29 | This suggests to me that it may not always be the lack of children that causes the distress — I 'd watched them childless , enjoying life enormously — rather , it is the realisation that biologically , they will not now be parents . |
| 30 | So she said er it wo n't only be fiver cos she said |