Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] not be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Set-aside could be a unique opportunity for improving farmland for wild game , but unfortunately the present proposals may not be realising their full potential for gamebirds and other wildlife , ’ he added . |
| 2 | The Russians may not be coming but their wines certainly are |
| 3 | Counting pensioners and children , 14m savers should not be paying tax , but have to under current legislation . |
| 4 | Local authorities should not be interfering and wasting charge payers ' money in those ridiculous , trite and stupid ways . |
| 5 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 6 | He added that splinter groups should not be pulling the carpet out from under the coalition . |
| 7 | The clever Canaries may not be brimming with university honours but assistant manager John Deehan revealed : ‘ We have got a set of very intelligent players — and it would be naive of myself and the manager not to take their advice . ’ |
| 8 | This approach clearly has the disadvantage that subjects may not be driving in their normal manner , however , the information available to the driver can be accurately recorded on video and it is possible to have them give ratings of both subjective and estimated risk . |
| 9 | By sharing songwriting income , the songwriter is recognizing that without the help of the other band members , his or her songs may not be generating any income at all . |
| 10 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 11 | If we stopped to check out what we really wanted to do , our internal voices might not be saying , ‘ Time to go out clubbing , ’ but , ‘ Out with the Ovaltine , on with the duvet and open the Ruth Rendell . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 13 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 14 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 15 | Though the flush of larvae on the pasture may be an annual event , the appearance of clinical nematodiriasis is not ; thus if the flush of L3 is early the suckling lambs may not be consuming sufficient grass to acquire large numbers of L3 , and if it is late the lambs may be old enough to resist the larval challenge . |
| 16 | ‘ PRIVATE companies should not be making profits out of state punishment . |
| 17 | If my hon. Friend has any evidence that other countries might not be implementing the regulations as carefully as we are , we shall certainly take action . |
| 18 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 19 | If Wilko was willing to try something else in order to get a result then the same criticisms would not be appearing week in week out . |
| 20 | Charge cards companies will not be looking to take on those customers with lower incomes who do not want to pay , or find it difficulty in paying , high credit-card interest rates . |
| 21 | When converted into German marks , the workers would not be earning a great deal . |
| 22 | But Washington state officials will not be heading for underground shelters as the rocket is loaded with peace messages and pleas for investment . |
| 23 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 24 | ‘ Things might not be going too well in the League for them — but strange things have happened in Cup matches . ’ |
| 25 | Things could not be going better . |
| 26 | The following June , Eddie McAteer said that the Nationalists would not be attending a ceremony conferring the freedom of the city on The Honourable The Irish Society . |
| 27 | However I hope the term Human Resources will not be undergoing a consequent change of name . |
| 28 | True , he had frequently circumnavigated Ramsey Island but if the tides are used to best advantage then the Bitches will not be working as they are passed . |
| 29 | Witnesses may not be lying , or be prepared to lie , just because they desire a particular outcome . |
| 30 | Peter Jackson , Conservative group leader , said Middlesbrough poll tax payers should not be baling out the church . |