Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps sometime I 'll be able to devise a way round my official non-existence and apply for a gun myself , though even then , all things considered , I might not be granted a licence . |
| 2 | Child rearing is more ‘ permissive ’ , and while children may not be granted the status of equal partners in the family decision-making process , they are no longer simply expected to be seen and not heard . |
| 3 | The budget need not be balanced every year but should be balanced over the trade cycle , with surpluses in booms and deficits in slumps . |
| 4 | If an individual item can not be matched the wording of this clause should be brought to the attention of the policyholder . |
| 5 | On proximal joints the dorsal arm spines from one side of the arm form a continuous series with those from the other , but this can not be called a fan in the sense used in other genera of the Ophiacanthidae . |
| 6 | This argument can be criticized on the grounds that a state bureaucracy can not be called a class . |
| 7 | Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets . |
| 8 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |
| 9 | The mummified corpses , which Sadat decreed should not be made a spectacle of , include those of Seti I , Segnere III and Ramses II . |
| 10 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 11 | The one can not be made a substitute for the other ; indeed , any failure in right conduct inevitably brings about a downfall in right beliefs . |
| 12 | That the archbishop of the prestigious see of Milan , graced by St Ambrose and St Charles Borromeo , should not be made a cardinal looked like a deliberate snub . |
| 13 | There are cases not in any way in doubt on this appeal which establish the general proposition that a foetus enjoys , while still a foetus , no independent legal personality — a foetus can not , while a foetus , sue and can not be made a ward of court : see Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 14 | Since that Act came into force , a child who is the subject of a care order , as W. was and is , can not be made a ward of court : see section 100(2) ( c ) of that Act . |
| 15 | W. , being in the care of the local authority , can not be made a ward of court : see section 100(2) of , and paragraph 15 of Schedule 14 to , the Children Act 1989 . |
| 16 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
| 17 | Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action . |
| 18 | If the body is a small one , the younger hunters may not be given a share . |
| 19 | Illiterate people can not be given a questionnaire , though they may , of course , be interviewed . |
| 20 | emphasized that persons should not be given a right to attend eg. the Press , who could state that they were very interested in embalming . |
| 21 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 22 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 23 | I should make it clear that my construction did not depend upon the children of the staff taking up surplus places in the sense that if there were sufficient fee paying pupils , the staff 's children would not be given a place . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ he smiled apologetically , ‘ I 'm afraid you would not be given a hearing . ’ |
| 25 | If thrown from his horse he would not be given the opportunity to remount . |
| 26 | ‘ Why the hell should disabled people not be given the chance to run things themselves ? ’ |
| 27 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 28 | It would seem that there are few general applications , but several specific conditions may be helped by higher doses of vitamin A. Firstly , though , it should be remembered that retinol is toxic in large doses , and the public should not be given the impression that it is a safe supplement for children who may have recurrent respiratory or diarrhoeal illness . |
| 29 | It was his second consecutive penalty miss and Norwich 's third out of four this season , and Walker said afterwards the Welsh international would not be given the job in future . |
| 30 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |