Example sentences of "not be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The batteries should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold temperatures , or exposed to moisture .
2 The additional attraction of moving to a central control , for some , is that it has often been argued , and increasingly so over the past 20 years , that debt charges do not measure ‘ cost of service ’ and should not be charged to detailed revenue accounts anyway .
3 Although the inquiry was still in its early stages by mid-1991 , there were suggestions that its impact would not be limited to Western Australia .
4 If balance is important it can not be limited to public television .
5 What is more , schemata need not be limited to unordered catalogues of people and things within a stereotyped situation , or stereotyped sequences of events telling us what is likely to happen next .
6 Access will not be limited to formal applications made under the Act but we will be seeking to develop ‘ live access ’ that means by sharing information as it becomes part of the file .
7 Electrophysiological assessment should not be limited to programmed ventricular stimulation but should include a comprehensive evaluation of sinus node , AV node , and His-Purkinje function .
8 It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell .
9 Counter arguments may not be employed to full effect , and individual injustices ( perhaps involving parents who have been subject to wholly baseless accusations ) may not be exposed .
10 On Dec. 16 , Joseph Kamotho , secretary-general of KANU , said that international observers would not be invited to forthcoming elections .
11 Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it .
12 The graduate , for the rest of his or her life , will not be tied to glib or unsupported statements which might be encountered in the discipline .
13 Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received .
14 The second activity will not be related to specific lesson preparation but have to do with language work related to modes of language use .
15 The obese diabetic ( Ideal body weight > 120 per cent : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company , 1959 ) must be encouraged to lose weight as this has been found to have a blood-pressure-lowering effect which may or may not be related to concomitant reduction of dietary sodium ( Reisin et al , 1978 ; Tuck et al , 1981 ; Fagerberg et al , 1984 ) .
16 This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement .
17 Should not be given to non-ventilated babies
18 That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain .
19 An LGB circular of 1871 proclaimed that out-door relief should not be given to single women unless they proved their inability to find other employment by performing a daily labour task , officially termed a ‘ labour test ’ , such as cleaning , in the workhouse , returning home at night .
20 Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet .
21 It has also been suggested that rape in marriage can not be compared to other forms of rape , since the effect on the victim must needs be far less traumatic .
22 These restrictions apply not only to the photographing of sacred objects but also , for example , to the recording of songs ; many songs are exclusive to men or women , and must not be played to mixed audiences .
23 Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations .
24 While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change .
25 Before a distinguished audience Dr Robert Koch , the eminent Berlin bacteriologist , who in 1882 had described the tubercle bacillus , lecturing on the subject of the disease , stated positively that the bacillus found in infected animals could not be transferred to human beings .
26 We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) .
27 The Cork Committee considered that section 245 should not be extended to fixed charges since the charge would relate to the company 's existing assets whereas the floating charge could cover future assets .
28 As safety in shared spaces is currently sought by short sight lines , this variant of the principle can not be extended to residential roads in general .
29 On flat surfaces this action is minimised by laying a carpet of light-reflective white limestone chippings on the asphalt , but this treatment can not be extended to sloping sections or to roofs carrying regular foot-traffic .
30 They rightly feared that they would not be appointed to judicial posts which carried executive responsibilities .
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