Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | God grant that it may not startle only to be read and pondered by thoughtful brains as well as by feeling hearts … |
| 2 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 3 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 4 | Imposing English at all levels of the education system may not turn out to be either practical or appropriate . |
| 5 | This may not turn out to be so easy . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |
| 7 | These arrangements are an unknown quantity and the administration may not turn out to be up to scratch . |
| 8 | Rocks may not seem initially to be particularly magnetic . |
| 9 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 10 | Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest . |
| 11 | Eventually , those waging their campaign against her found they were losing , and furthermore , they quickly realized they could n't afford not to be seen as a Katherine Lundy party . |
| 12 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 13 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 14 | She would not know how to be happy . ’ |
| 15 | Worse still , on the day , how could I be sure , with so many actors around , that the bridesmaids would n't turn out to be actors in drag ? |
| 16 | Hopefully the evening would n't turn out to be the disaster she 'd envisaged . |
| 17 | With its industrial importance , it ca n't afford not to be . |
| 18 | If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great . |
| 19 | It is true enough that there is often such a nuance ( see Quirk , Greenbaum , Leech , Svartvik , 1972 ) , but the proposal will not turn out to be satisfactory . |
| 20 | I think there 'll be a lot of people who wo n't move off to be honest ! |
| 21 | Perhaps he wo n't turn out to be the British Jean Renoir of a Glaswegian Woody Allen . |
| 22 | Similarly , your subconscious can not try not to be a failure without first of all picturing failure . |
| 23 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 24 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |