Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an irregular inflection like sung would be listed , so that the lexical rule for the formation of the regular plural present tense would not be inappropriately applied to the base to give singed . |
| 2 | This industry should certainly not be haughtily condescended to . |
| 3 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 4 | In these two examples , we are reminded that what cloze is measuring is the predictability , or more accurately , the redundancy within a passage , and this may or may not be closely related to its comprehensibility . |
| 5 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 6 | Secondly , the adversary nature of the adjudicative process may not be well suited to this area . |
| 7 | Nationalism is linked to deep-rooted human instincts and can not be easily ascribed to clever politicians . |
| 8 | An organisation 's objectives , particularly the relative priorities of different goals , may not be clearly conveyed to or understood by individuals . |
| 9 | We therefore have to face the fact that there are structural differences between rat and monkey cortex that can not be simply attributed to differences in size . |
| 10 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 11 | Next year he will begin to bring it ‘ up to date ’ and emphasise that honours should not be automatically awarded to people who have kept their noses clean in certain jobs , but that they must be earned . |
| 12 | But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them . |
| 13 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 14 | This newly created honourary office carried with it ex officio membership of the executive committee so that , it was hoped Ayliffe 's years of experience would not be wholly lost to the Association by his decision not to offer himself for reelection as President . |
| 15 | Therefore the observed O 3 changes can not be entirely attributed to the Mount Pinatubo eruption . |
| 16 | In other words , any increases or decreases can not be solely attributed to the effects of economic integration . |
| 17 | Many teachers are now persuaded that English lessons should not be solely confined to ‘ great ’ literature , but should include all kinds of ‘ texts ’ , spoken and written , together with popular forms such as television commercials , bestsellers and comics ; |
| 18 | I hope he will not be permanently lost to tennis . |
| 19 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 20 | Whatever its precise terms an exclusion clause designed to operate on a national basis can not be justly applied to a party active in only one part of the country and putting up no candidates elsewhere . |
| 21 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 22 | However , they can not be unreservedly recommended to the gardener who requires something fairly permanent . |
| 23 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 24 | Further on , the reality is that the UPF can not be more committed to a franc fort policy than the socialists ; and if the test comes there is a clear risk that the new government will not speak with one voice . |
| 25 | Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation . |
| 26 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 27 | Much of the earlier work was done on Mediterranean terraces and these , as well as many of the terraces in other areas , can not be directly related to Pleistocene events . |
| 28 | However , there are certain peripheral types of semantic constituent which can not be directly subjected to the test . |
| 29 | The second group consists of ‘ public goods ’ that can not be directly allocated to particular individuals ( e.g. , defence ) . |
| 30 | Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR . |