Example sentences of "not be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost ; they will not be shaken out by external events , however surprising , alarming or vexing . |
| 2 | Unlike a lead tingle fixing , the Sim-Fix can not be pushed out of place by snow slippage . |
| 3 | Valuable interpretive ideas may be found in journals of psychology , aesthetics , philosophy , history , religion , sociology , anthropology , even medicine and biology , although these may not be matched up with descriptions and evaluations of art . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The impact of the visual world , which can not be kept out by undemocratic and dogmatic regimes , will have a tremendous effect on many communities . |
| 6 | More fundamentally , the decision in Katsikas raises the issue of whether the employee can most effectively be safeguarded by legal provisions which are mandatory and so can not be contracted out of or whether the law must respect the employee 's freedom to choose . |
| 7 | This provision can not be contracted out of . |
| 8 | Sadly , those mistakes can not be covered up in hospitals . |
| 9 | The drain should not be covered over by backfilling the trench until the test has been completed . |
| 10 | This time , Mr Kaifu was convinced , the Americans would not be shut up with a promise here , a concession there . |
| 11 | But the story could not be shut up with him , and before another week had passed they had been forced to commit to the Tower six more persons , four friars minor , Stephen Lene , parson , and the prior of the friars preachers of Winchelsea . |
| 12 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 13 | Two days after insisting he would not be tempted out of international retirement , Kriss Akabusi was controversially named for the 400m hurdles , ahead of the new British champion Gary Cadogan . |
| 14 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If he learns from this episode that he must be more independent in his judgment and not be swept along by others , there need be no long-lasting harm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment . |
| 20 | Values such as fairness , honesty , and integrity are values worth pursuing in themselves , and should not be shrugged off by reverting to some contervailing argument such as costs . |
| 21 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 22 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 25 | If terms should not be taught through drills , or out of context , it follows that terms should not be tested out of context . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Because energy can not be created out of nothing , one of the partners in a particle/antiparticle pair will have positive energy , and the other partner negative energy . |
| 28 | Turbo diesels should not be dismissed out of hand , but the turbocharger is a complicating factor , and a car which has not been carefully serviced may need an expensive replacement turbo . |
| 29 | Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 30 | The hypothesis can not be dismissed out of hand . |