Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it attempted to go-ahead with the purchase , Friends of the Earth launched a legal challenge , claiming that due notice had not been served on some of the owners . |
| 2 | It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) . |
| 3 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 4 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 6 | However , the " sombre professionalism " or intellectual self-sufficiency of inter-war English studies had not been achieved without some breakdown of mutual comprehension within the discipline itself . |
| 7 | It was owned by the Baron de Rochefort and his family , and visitors had not been encouraged for some time , as the Baron did not enjoy the best of health . |
| 8 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 9 | But their image has not been helped by some leaving damaged and defaced properties . |
| 10 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 11 | Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years . |
| 12 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 13 | Other areas , such as worker 's rights or indirect taxation , remain politically controversial and legally complex and legislation may not be adopted for some time . |
| 14 | The occurrence of /aI/ in one dialect and /eI/ in the other is a result of the agreement within each community on a consensus norm of usage within that community , and the difference can not be explained without some reference to this fact . |
| 15 | Crop rotations and equipment could not be exploited in some areas until enclosure removed the remaining open fields and increased farm size . |
| 16 | While not wishing to deny that there are differences in the ways executives , bureaucracies and assemblies operate compared with law courts , we suggest that the politics of any system can not be understood without some awareness of the crucial part played by law in its operations . |
| 17 | Collins warned that while the company has initiated trials with rodents and primates , clinical trials will not be conducted for some time . |
| 18 | It can not be boxed into some neatly defined category as economics or sociology or politics or history . |
| 19 | Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates . |
| 20 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are sometimes obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 21 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 22 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 23 | That is why the treaty on political union at Maastricht can not be seen as some troublesome adjunct to the treaty on monetary union . |
| 24 | The fact is that Mr Kinnock and his friends understand well enough not only that they could not be elected but that Britain could not be governed without some serious accommodations of the kind they now stand for . |
| 25 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |
| 26 | ‘ Good girl — I can see you 'll not be intimidated by some of the cheeky young devils we get here . ’ |
| 27 | The reader may not be persuaded by some of the cases , but the whole mass of them carries conviction . |
| 28 | I see now that 's one that is n't may not be known to some of our listeners they 're used to the R S P C A and the P D S A but the National Canine Defence League what makes it different ? |
| 29 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 30 | The most common ranking is E-3 which means ‘ some protection against event risk : protection may not be provided against some anticipated events , or the effectiveness of protective provisions is questionable , or the benefits of protection are modest ’ . |