Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [not/n't] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many US commentators believe a final decision may not in fact be made before 1995 . |
| 2 | The ‘ revelation ’ to which they witness offers nothing that the development of a rational religious sensibility would not in time be able to discover for itself . |
| 3 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 4 | However , backlight may not in fact be the culprit . |
| 5 | The recognition codes which the Simonova was broadcasting should not in theory render any platform completely inoperative . |
| 6 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 7 | Among the many popular items in this Bill is the provision that councillors who will not pay their community charge or their council tax will not in future be entitled to vote on setting a budget for their local authorities — |
| 8 | He submitted that the court should not in principle vary the injunction at the behest of the contemner , and thus increase the adverse consequences upon the plaintiffs . |
| 9 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 10 | An authoritarian bureaucratic approach may not in fact solve the problem but just add to those that the family already have . |
| 11 | Experience of the past two years suggests that the existing legislation need not in fact inhibit further desirable changes in the work of the C & AG and the PAC . |
| 12 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 13 | Indication of perspective presents another convention in which one thing may not in reality be smaller than another but may be shown as such to indicate that it is further away from the viewer . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 15 | Only thus can there be confirmation that the patient can not in fact sustain his own vital functions . |
| 16 | When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found . |
| 17 | If an ex-pupil of an education authority bequeaths £10,000 on the condition that the money is invested and the interest earned is awarded as a prize to the best academic performance each year , the money can not in law be used to keep local taxes down . |
| 18 | Even if there were no public interest in publication , the right to free speech could not in principle be subordinated to the welfare of an individual whose established legal rights were not infringed . |
| 19 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
| 20 | We now explain why this apparently neat solution will not in fact be possible . |