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 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 5 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |