Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Pinsent says they must not be over confident . |
| 2 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 3 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 4 | Partnerships should challenge the trend ; partnerships should not be about alternative sources of funding for the public education service but about ensuring proper levels of public funding with additional support from the private sector . |
| 5 | However , the EC authorities should not be over zealous in this matter to the extent of arguing that any territorial division of the EC market , especially the charging of different prices in different countries , is a sign of non-competitive behaviour . |
| 6 | ‘ Decisions about who has access to the gene should not be in private hands in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 7 | To both of them , the human sacrifice of 1914–18 created not just a deep loathing of war but also a determination that such sacrifice should not be in vain . |
| 8 | One of our concerns is that our ex-service men should not be in temporary accommodation . |
| 9 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 10 | He says that it should n't be to difficult , just time consuming . |
| 11 | Some mannerisms may not be of great use to the interviewer in assessing your character but they may work against you by being irritating . |
| 12 | This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes . |
| 13 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 14 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 15 | In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity . |
| 16 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 17 | Extensive microbiological evaluation obviously increases the number of abnormalities detected ; however , these may or may not be of pathogenic relevance as also indicated by the persistence of symptoms after eradication of several infective agents reported by others . |
| 18 | The situation in which a sexual problem is " masked " by a non-sexual presenting problem which may or may not be of true significance is not uncommon . |
| 19 | If , however , we are talking about the number two or number three in a particular market , they may not be of sufficient size to achieve these objectives . |
| 20 | I think , I may not be in perfect shape , but I ai n't gon na run away from you . |
| 21 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 22 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
| 23 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
| 24 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
| 25 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 26 | The choice of locations need not be for permanent bases , but can also include dynamic repositioning of units as circumstances dictate ( Kolesar and Walker 1974 ) . |
| 27 | This need not be of great concern to management , however , given the capacity of most companies to finance themselves through retained earnings . |
| 28 | ( In practice the meshes need not be of constant size nor need they be of uniform shape . ) |
| 29 | ‘ The threat need not be of extreme violence . |
| 30 | All answers must be clearly and correctly numbered but need not be in numerical order . |