Example sentences of "not be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold would acknowledge her politely and indicate that it would not be many hours before he was going up . |
| 2 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 3 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |
| 4 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 5 | There will not be many jobs for the people of Hackney in any of these proposals . |
| 6 | In the harsher 1990s there will not be many corks popping at companies that fail to : |
| 7 | There may not be many opportunities to aviate in winter , but those that do appear can provide the best flying of the year — light winds , excellent power and density altitude conditions and a razor sharp horizon . |
| 8 | There can not be many Catholics in Halifax who have not been to an event at St. Mary 's ! |
| 9 | It should be said , however , that there will not be many situations where users will be able to obtain such information from organizations . |
| 10 | It could not be all pride … . |
| 11 | It will not be all warnings therefore which provide a defence , only such warnings which enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 12 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 13 | I will not be that man . |
| 14 | But it need not be that way and there is evidence to prove it . |
| 15 | ‘ Last season is gone — we had an advantage then but it might not be that way this time . |
| 16 | If no one could learn anything from my saying , ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , there would not be that use of ‘ Here ’ . |
| 17 | The letter did not mention that , having made the choice , there would not be much chance of going back . |
| 18 | If we want to start new projects there will not be much money in the new expenditure . |
| 19 | Andrew Watkinson , a member of the Advisory Committee on Release to the Environment , said that as long as Nickerson made careful checks for tubers and burnt off any remaining material , there would not be much likelihood of this occurring . |
| 20 | Indeed , there would not be much sense in such an arrangement . |
| 21 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 22 | It will not be much fun for them when the weather is bad . |
| 23 | There will not be much re-nationalisation , for example , and the top rate of tax will not be as high as it was under Mr Healey ( although it will start much lower down the scale ) . |
| 24 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 25 | ‘ There are two things we have to discuss and there may not be much time or another opportunity . |
| 26 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 27 | There may not be much room in the house you are sharing with your parents for a baby , perhaps , or he may be worried about money if you intend giving up work . |
| 28 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |
| 29 | Experience shows that there will not be enough time and that on the Government 's reckoning there will not be enough resources . |
| 30 | But if the genes are stacked high up against you , lifestyle changes may not be enough protection . ’ |