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

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1 Now if the protracted labour and gestation period ever does give birth to a new set of regulations governing player registration in England , the likes of Shelford will not be able to play in the rugby competitions in this country .
2 The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride .
3 Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking .
4 The case submitted by the DoE was that ‘ the purpose of making fuller use of SDOs would not be to make any general relaxation in development control but to stimulate planned development in acceptable locations , and speed up the planning process ’ .
5 The problems of Kashmir can not be resolved by violence .
6 Pleas that the character of the North Yorkshire market town of Pickering should not be spoiled by takeaway food shops have been made by town councillors who rejected schemes to convert a dry cleaners into a kebab house and for a pizza takeaway at a music shop .
7 He may have considered that a minority of States should not be able to counteract a general peace settlement , in the nature of a dispositive treaty .
8 Soviet interest was aroused by the Iranian view that ‘ there will have to be guarantees that neither the Americans nor American surrogates substitute for the departing Russians ’ , that the problem of Afghanistan should not be solved in the East/West context .
9 The present position is one in which the Treaty of Maastricht can not be ratified because of the Danish veto .
10 If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue .
11 The statement said that the " status and fate of the Crimea as a component part of Ukraine can not be the subject of any interstate negotiations " .
12 YOUNGSTERS from the West of Scotland should not be underestimated .
13 According to a recent Gallup survey of 1,034 adults throughout the UK commissioned by the Abbey National , people in Scotland and the north of England may not be .
14 The Archbishop of York said that Charles 's position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England would not be affected by the breakdown of his marriage — not even if he was divorced .
15 It was submitted the Bank of England would not be prejudiced by having to make an application for the variation of a court order in the same manner as any other third party seeking a variation which affects its rights of interests .
16 Prohibitions of such appeals in the thirteenth century had often cited for their authority a papal indult of 1231 in which Gregory IX had conceded that the magnates and barons of England should not be summoned in litigation beyond the sea , a privilege subsequently generalized to all the king 's English subjects and soon known as the privilege of England .
17 This means that the Bank of England can not be sure of success if it uses open-market operations to expand the money supply .
18 With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates .
19 The political lessons of Suez could not be disguised .
20 The south coast resort of Bournemouth may not be everyone 's choice for a summer holiday , but when drawing up your hectic April racing calendar give the Bournemouth Bay Run your strongest consideration .
21 And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in .
22 But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards .
23 It is unfortunate that the Life of Guthlac can not be more closely dated .
24 The eleventh-century claim that Merewalh , king of the Magonsaete , was also a son of Penda can not be authenticated , even though in the 740s Aethelbald , king of the Mercians , appears to describe Mildrith ( later regarded as the daughter of Merewalh and Aebbe ( Eafe ) , a Kentish princess ) as his kinswoman ( CS 177 : S 91 ) ; and the likelihood is not that the Magonsaete were a Mercian creation but that Mercian control was being imposed upon their territory across the mid-seventh century .
25 Where the heart is turbulent and restless , where it is mixed in motive , and conceals anger , pride , or fear , then the vision of God can not be seen .
26 Philosophers point out the existence of God can not be proved and terms like good or love can not be defined in a way that has real independent existence outwith our wishful thinking .
27 Thus while the reality of God can not be proved by ‘ pure reason ’ , it can reasonably be believed in the context of ‘ practical reason ’ .
28 The breath of God and the message of God can not be divorced .
29 Just as the will of God can not be known without the revelation of the Spirit , so the service of God can not be carried through without the equipment of that same Spirit .
30 Just as the will of God can not be known without the revelation of the Spirit , so the service of God can not be carried through without the equipment of that same Spirit .
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