Example sentences of "which it be [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta .
2 But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) .
3 In layman 's terms , this means that the knee joint is slightly bent in a direction in which it is not intended to bend .
4 It is also likely that this view is a departure from earlier law , in which it is not attested .
5 In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed .
6 That throughout the material part of that period the computer was operating properly or , if not , that any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the production of the document or the accuracy of its contents ; and ,
7 Although the chances of a complaint being made or a prosecution being brought in these circumstances seem remote , it is conceivable that a prosecutor with censorious views could make use of the legislation for purposes for which it was not intended .
8 The conduct of the consumer may also be relevant where he has put the product to a use for which it was not intended .
9 The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine .
10 The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine .
11 This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make .
12 The hazards model also showed no reduction of survival time in a comparison of the period when atenolol was prescribed ( 1977–90 ) with the period in which it was not prescribed ( 1972–6 ) .
13 But there was one thing for which it was not prepared — Lady Diana Spencer .
14 The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War .
15 Egypt concluded that it ‘ does not consider itself bound by that Memorandum or whatever commitments to which it was not a party or on which it was not consulted ’ .
16 Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times .
17 However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others .
18 AD 160 across the courtyard building , after which it was not rebuilt although the baths appear to have remained in use .
19 He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time .
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