Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not intended therefore to be comprehensive . |
| 2 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 3 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 4 | It was a generation that had to be brave and now did not know how to be peaceful . |
| 5 | People who did not know how to be useful dropped out of Good Neighbour schemes . |
| 6 | She would not know how to be happy . ’ |
| 7 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 8 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 9 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 10 | But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman , and she 'd certainly not hired on to be sociable . |
| 11 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 12 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 13 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Clelia did not pretend not to be delighted by Clara 's delight . |
| 16 | We must try to ensure that , as a result of our own genetic manipulation , they do not turn out to be unpleasant surprises . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 19 | She did n't know how to be light . |
| 20 | ‘ Most marriages I 've observed have n't turned out to be lifelong affairs , and those that do all too frequently end up causing more misery than separation or divorce . ’ |
| 21 | I , I do n't remember really to be honest but I , I erm erm Malcolm said something once which so I was n't surprised , you know , ca n't remember exactly what . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think there 'll be a lot of people who wo n't move off to be honest ! |
| 24 | I was n't brought up to be useful . |
| 25 | Let's hope they do n't turn out to be double-edged gifts . |