Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be not [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’
2 Or you 're not going to Lee Ann 's .
3 If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public .
4 While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner .
5 In rural areas the house drains , where they are not connected to sewers , are directed into enclosed tanks called cess pools or into septic tanks .
6 Many were recovered from dark caves and rock crevices where they were not intended to be seen by mortal eyes .
7 Similarly , where an agreement specifies the time for doing three things ( eg , taking procedural steps towards a rent review ) and two of the three are stated to have a time limit which is of the essence of the contract and the other one does not , then it follows that , in all probability , where it is not stated to be of the essence , it is not intended to be of the essence .
8 He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ?
9 I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs .
10 ‘ I would love another child but I have to be aware of the possibility that I 'm not going to be able to have one of my own , ’ she said .
11 I 'm damn sure that I 'm not going to be the one to try . ’
12 I figure that I 'm not going to be offered any more roles as the 41-year-old middleaged neurotic entering a crisis , 'cos I 'm not that any more and I do n't want to play that any more .
13 But a third confessed anonymously : ‘ I 'm glad that I 'm not going to be pitted against a chimp . ’
14 Fine that 's , that 's then but now my dad 's given me permission to do that I 'm not going to .
15 ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me .
16 After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts .
17 I only hoped , as the sun sank lower and the breeze grew cool , that I was not going to be obliged to use it .
18 You fell in love with an illegitimate girl who carries her father 's name by grace and favour , not by right — never mind that I was not meant to be illegitimate ; that is what I am .
19 Said that I was n't to go to the Lab this morning because Mrs. Schofield wanted me over at Leamings particular .
20 ‘ The situation with M'tronix went on till ‘ 87 , but I realised around ‘ 86 that I was n't getting to the public with my own stuff ; all I was doing was perpetuating Fender and Marshall 's reputations , because their amps formed the bulk of our work .
21 It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade .
22 ‘ I was also afraid that I was n't going to be fed properly .
23 Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it .
24 When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more .
25 I 'm not a card-carrying clown so I was n't admitted to the AGM , but a usually reliable source informs me that the main issues debated were amalgamation with the US-based World Clowns ' Federation — inevitable , I suppose , in the era of superunions — and charitable status .
26 Well I know you 'd love to debate that with me , but we devoted a whole morning to it yesterday so I 'm not going to .
27 ‘ Let's say that Ah 'm not going to the police or anybody in authority .
28 Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory .
29 We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed .
30 He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be .
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