Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sections 352 , 354 and 355 clearly envisage , and indeed demand , alterations without which the register could not be kept up to date and fulfil its purpose , and although there is no express provision for alterations of members ' addresses that takes place all the time . |
| 2 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 3 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 4 | It was as architects rather than as builders that the Caroline bureaucrats bequeathed to liberalism this programme : their concrete achievements remained limited , but there is no practical reform of the nineteenth century , no reforming attitude of mind , that can not be traced back to one of the servants of Charles III . |
| 5 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 6 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 7 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 8 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 9 | It could not be sent back to the original commission which was dominated by Lateran supporters , so a neatly balanced new one had to be constituted with Ottaviani and Bea as joint chairmen . |
| 10 | The Thai Deputy Prime Minister , Gen. Thienchai Sirisamphan , announced on Oct. 9 that the two hijackers would be tried in Thailand and would not be sent back to Myanma . |
| 11 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 12 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 13 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 14 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 15 | Finally there were those who argued that it was essential to keep British control over at least part of the British car industry and that , after all the taxpayers money invested in Austin Rover , the company should not be turned over to Ford , a US multinational . |
| 16 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 17 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 18 | We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels . |
| 19 | The Queen of Beauty can not be pinned down to one expression , and every female image of beauty that is created is only a single realization of a great range of possibilities . |
| 20 | At the same time , most of the gentry — and especially the sea-going west country gentry — were staunchly Protestant , staunchly loyal to Elizabeth , and determined that she should not be lured back to Rome . |
| 21 | This had little practical effect , however , until the 1890s , when public pressure forced the government to set aside areas of forest that could not be sold off to logging companies . |
| 22 | It has given a pledge that compulsory redundancies will not be introduced up to August 31 in the hope that enough volunteers come forward . |
| 23 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 24 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 25 | 3 ) The ball must not be passed back to the goalkeeper from outside the penalty area . |
| 26 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 27 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 28 | To this list we can also add some particular tasks that should not be handed over to subordinates or indeed other specialists who may be available to you : |
| 29 | The task can not be handed over to the superstar preacher and those with ‘ the gift of persuasive oratory ’ . |
| 30 | They should not be handed over to Tito , but should be " disarmed and placed in refugee camps " until their " ultimate disposal " was decided at Government level . |