Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 2 | ‘ Ma foi , the world 's greatest detective is not to be interfered with either . |
| 3 | ‘ Only a certain topic is censored , a certain party 's name is not to be mentioned . ’ |
| 4 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 5 | This is not to be confused with her own personal feelings . |
| 6 | This operation is not to be attempted by novices . |
| 7 | To theorize about life is not to live . |
| 8 | the difficulty is not to be hidden — we ourselves have no right to hide it . |
| 9 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 10 | The real criticism of Mr Pound is not to be directed against his theory as such , but rather at the hasty headlong fashion in which he presents it , at the logical confusion of his intellect when it is not performing the task which is specifically his own , that task being poetry . |
| 11 | Uncle Sam 's man in Madrid THE BEST way to become an American ambassador to a Western country is not to be a good diplomat , but merely to contribute hefty sums to the winning presidential candidate . |
| 12 | Sir : Professor Gomme ( letter , 3 October ) argues the case for the exact recreation of the interior of Uppark most cogently ; and certainly , careful and committed reconstruction , such as can be seen at Chatelherault where Hamilton district council has faithfully , and against all the odds , achieved a marvellous reproduction of William Adam 's hunting lodge for the fifth Duke of Hamilton , is not to be jeered at . |
| 13 | If post cold-war Europe is not to be violent and conflictual then the sources of rivalry and mistrust need to be addressed head-on . |
| 14 | If its post cold-war generation is not to be continually confused by unexpected developments then they will need to come to terms with the dynamics of change . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 16 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 17 | Pattenism is not to be a continuation of Ridleyism : an important theme underlying the whole speech was that he intends not to err on the side of market forces at the expense of planning restrictions . |
| 18 | I am not able , as others may be , to find an aesthetic pleasure in admiring the pattern as it unfolded ; for the spectacle is not to an Englishman a reassuring one . |
| 19 | But this desperation is not to be stereotyped ; it is not so much the result of being a man , not even of being a ‘ real ’ man , but rather of being psychically and sexually locked into the fantasies and fears of sexual difference . |
| 20 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 21 | So with humanism more generally and more radically : it is not to be imitated , not modified , not simply borrowed from or differently applied ; rather , its appropriation and transformation is conditional upon its negation , the using of it destructively against itself . |
| 22 | In our philosophy the purpose of the life of the individual is not to be the servant of the state and its objectives but to make the best of his talents and qualities . |
| 23 | finally , Conservatism is characterized by political scepticism , or the belief that ‘ political wisdom … is not to be found in the theoretical speculations of isolated thinkers ’ . |
| 24 | PROTECTION of national telecoms monopolies by European Community governments ‘ is not to be tolerated , ’ Sir Leon Brittan , the Commissioner for competition policy , said in London yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ And that is not to be tolerated . ’ |
| 26 | But EC governments will have to agree on what changes to make to the Treaty of Rome by the end of 1991 , if the timetable is not to be derailed . |
| 27 | I have also made a very rich soup from smoked salmon pieces , but be very cautious about your fish stock if it is not to be spoiled by excessive salt . |
| 28 | His aim is not to mock or preach but to explain one country to another , and his sense of the absurd keeps him from becoming solemn . |
| 29 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
| 30 | A proviso for re-entry in the event of the tenant 's assigning or underletting the premises without the lessor 's consent was sometimes enforced in the most oppressive way ; but , under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , a proviso that the consent is not to be unreasonably withheld is implied ; and in this case , and in other cases , with one or two exceptions , the courts have power to give relief to the tenant . |