Example sentences of "be n't to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no matter , for you are n't to be beaten . ’ |
| 2 | There was here some enquiry and the that enquiry as a matter of public policy I understand the documents are n't to be available , even if they assist the police , or if they assist the other side . |
| 3 | Erm and you never know who 's coming in , it could be anybody and if we start saying things which are n't to , then we 'll eventually damage the project a great deal . |
| 4 | It is not only a matter of picking the right players — schedules and choosing the right programmes will also be important if we are n't to be fighting out for seventh or eighth place in Dublin . |
| 5 | If you were n't to be turned into a zombie , a walking automaton , in the absence of other night-people , incidents had to be manufactured . |
| 6 | They were n't to him . |
| 7 | Two minutes in any one house was as long as you dared allow if the last half-dozen dinners were n't to be stone-cold . |
| 8 | But they were n't to her . |
| 9 | But Brian and his colleagues were n't to be defeated . |
| 10 | There was unemployment going about and the man that had a certain job at making certain things were n't to keen to show the apprentice what to do or give them the recipes . |
| 11 | He were n't to it . |
| 12 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 13 | Well perhaps if we will , we were n't to , if we went next week , we 'd have two weeks earlier than last year wo n't we ? |
| 14 | . It was a couple of days notice and they were n't to pleased about it . |
| 15 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 16 | But United were n't to be denied , Mike Ford 's shot was deflected across the face of the goal and there was Andy Melville to poke the ball into the corner of the net , United to continue to come forward , but continued to waste chances that came their way . |
| 17 | And she 'll get all I have , which is n't to be sneezed at . ’ |
| 18 | The point is n't to be beautiful . |
| 19 | You can pull this stunt on an MFM drive but it is n't to be recommended . |
| 20 | ‘ I told you , Mr Devereux is n't to be disturbed tonight . ’ |
| 21 | We are invited to thrill to the idea of travelling nightmares , but the essentially humorous style informs us that it is n't to be taken entirely seriously . |
| 22 | It is n't to everyone 's taste . |
| 23 | I I wonder really , the only rational appro , response to the world at the moment is n't to be depressed , I mean , everyone looks around famines in Africa , and war and jus and depredation |
| 24 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 25 | A lot of what we 've discussed in this series implies that you need to buy other programs to get the best out of your system — de-fragmenters , disk compression programs and so forth , but that is n't to be the case , necessarily , quite soon . |
| 26 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 27 | The French cuisine is n't to everyones taste either . |
| 28 | Well I would think it er is n't to be would n't you ? |
| 29 | There 's nothing wrong with them as such but he says the real satisfaction is n't to be found in them , it 's within you . |
| 30 | His epistemology , I have suggested , was even in his own terms a failure , but I 've suggested also that failure is n't to be judged there in a naive way . |