Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spiritual direction need not be limited to a twosome . |
| 2 | The article shows that the interpretation of a text can not be limited to a purely linguistic analysis and advocates the case for the " bibliographical and productive histories of the poems we read " ( p. 205 ) . |
| 3 | As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state . |
| 4 | At a later stage , if errors are found in the procedure 's performance which can not be traced to a falling within the local system , it may be necessary to examine these influencing factors further , for instance the design of the form might be inadequate for the accurate recording of information , a factor outside the direct control of the section involved . |
| 5 | The report need not be made to a constable . |
| 6 | We shall assume that , by definition , an adjective , which instantiates a property , can not be related to a noun phrase identifying an entity by the relation of equation , and we have to deal in predicative position only with the other intensional relation found in items following a form of to be , assignment of qualification . |
| 7 | He fulfils the role of second son quite adequately in my view , and I trust he will not be summoned to a higher station in life . |
| 8 | The question of criminal liability can not be relegated to a matter of medical consensus . |
| 9 | The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history . |
| 10 | Lord Keith held that the distinction between evidence and discovery was recognised both in the Act and in Article 23 of the Convention ; it was not disputed by counsel that effect could not be given to a request merely seeking discovery . |
| 11 | Monetary policy can not be given to an ‘ independent ’ bank because it makes no sense to talk of monetary policy as independent of economic policy . |
| 12 | Art can not be raised to a pure effusion at a single onset . ’ |
| 13 | Births registered by the mother only can not be assigned to a social class , but the Longitudinal Study showed that 73 per cent of teenage illegitimate births in 1970–4 occurred to women where the ‘ chief economic supporter ’ ( usually father ) was a manual worker ; 13 per cent in social class V ( Werner 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Where frequent comments could not be assigned to a pre-existing category a new category was created . |
| 15 | Infants dying of sudden infant death syndrome included 229 Maoris , 240 non-Maoris , and 16 children who could not be assigned to an ethnic group . |
| 16 | The answer is that , properly speaking , the honourable word ‘ bound ’ should not be applied to a cased book , though it is admittedly in general use . |
| 17 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 18 | In summary , the view was that exceptional items should not be transferred to a single heading of ‘ exceptional ’ , because profit before exceptional items could then become the focus of financial statement presentation and as a result operating profit would be likely to become more blurred , rather than clarified . |
| 19 | " Surpluses can not be transferred to a purchaser . |
| 20 | For instance , in the eight queens problem , the position Q can not be extended to a goal because no queen can ever be put in the left file . |
| 21 | The profile should not be extended to a length which might cause misconceptions about its intended scope and purpose . |
| 22 | Generally unschooled in the scientific method , judges have the legal duty of deciding what may or may not be presented to a jury . |
| 23 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |
| 24 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 25 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 27 | He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile . |
| 28 | This somewhat schematic listing will serve to illustrate that sexual behaviour and its regulation can not be reduced to a simple explanatory factor ; nor can there be a simple , straightforward history . |
| 29 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 30 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |