Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] not be " in BNC.

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1 There may also be good reason for deleting reference to the contemplation of proceedings under ss 146 or 147 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , as the costs recoverable under such a provision may not be easy for the tenant to assess and counter .
2 The court held that such a provision should not be implied .
3 The court held that such a provision should not be implied .
4 However , it seems that such a provision can not be a contractual promise , and will only be effective if it gives rise to an estoppel ; it therefore will not exclude the implied term of fitness for purpose unless the seller believes it and relies on it ( Lowe v Lombank [ 1960 ] 1 All ER 611 ) .
5 The extent of this immunity was stated most widely in Duncan v. Cammel Laird ( H. L. , 1942 ) , where a claim by the Admiralty that documents relating to the construction of a submarine should not be disclosed , was upheld .
6 When a regional secretary , acting on the advice of the solicitor , indicates that a case can not be won , and terminates legal assistance under rule twenty seven , should the member be able to appeal against that decision ?
7 A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom .
8 Although the substance of a decision may not be altered materially , it may be trimmed with the timing of its announcement , or the explanations offered , being geared to the anticipated reception by populist opinion , especially as evidenced by the press .
9 A provision that a decision shall not be subject to appeal ( or that it shall be ‘ final ’ ) does not oust judicial review .
10 Such a decision should not be taken timidly .
11 A decision will not be held to be unlawful because it is ‘ unreasonable ’ in the ordinary , non-legal sense .
12 It seems fairly obvious that often such a decision will not be possible either because no clear decision procedures are available , or because of certain fundamental difficulties involved in applying such procedures .
13 The no evidence doctrine was commonly taken to mean that a decision will not be regarded as outside of the jurisdiction of the decision-maker even if he reached his decision on no evidence .
14 But , while outlining the grounds for imposing a charge for waste collection , a spokesperson for the DoE insisted such a decision could not be taken lightly .
15 ( It has also been suggested that derivations from a stem might not be listed explicitly , so that there would be no separate listing of a word like singer , only a listing of the lexical rule for the formation of an agentive . )
16 In principle , of course , the conclusion of such a struggle need not be as straightforward as Dearlove implies in his own study .
17 As we have already pointed out a number of times , the predicative position is the surface structure which marks assignment of the property of the adjective to the entity of the subject ; but it goes without saying that the subject of a sentence can not be merely a relation between two parts of itself ; therefore an adjective which is specialized to qualify the relation between entity and description is automatically excluded from predicative position for that reason .
18 The meaning of a sentence should not be allowed to depend on punctuation .
19 ( vi ) Style is relatively transparent or opaque : transparency implies paraphrasability ; opacity implies that a text can not be adequately paraphrased , and that interpretation of the text depends greatly on the creative imagination of the reader .
20 It is fairly easy to demonstrate that the meaning of a text can not be constrained by reference to a writer 's intentions .
21 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 ) .
22 California 's philosophy underpinning its seismic codes holds that a building should not be damaged in a minor quake , should suffer no more than minor structural damage in a moderate quake and not collapse in a major quake .
23 She feels that exhortations are fine but the real purpose of a writer should not be dissolved in the political ideas of the time .
24 However this study , and the many others which followed it , were criticised on the grounds that subjects ' reporting of the position of a click might not be a perceptual effect , but the result of memory or response bias .
25 In such cases the Court of Justice has held that the requirements of Article 190 are satisfied if the statement of reasons given explains in essence the measures taken by the institutions and that a specific statement of reasons in support of all the details which might be contained in such a measure can not be required , provided such details fall within the general scheme of the measures as a whole .
26 I admit a cloak would not be missed , but a precious ring ?
27 if a cheque can not be endorsed or forwarded , a bank account should be opened in the name ‘ KPMG Peat Marwick as nominee for [ name ] ’ or ‘ KPMG Peat Marwick in trust for [ name ] ’ .
28 Although the depiction of an ancient building on a coin can not be taken entirely at face value , it would be equally wrong to conclude that the evidence of coins is worthless in reconstructing the architectural history of the ancient world .
29 Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way .
30 We could describe them partly in terms of stress ( by saying , for example , that strong syllables are stressed and weak syllables unstressed ) , but until we describe what ‘ stress ’ means such a description would not be very useful .
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