Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , your subconscious can not try not to be a failure without first of all picturing failure . |
| 2 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 3 | However , because it is very difficult in practice to evaluate the integrals which this method involves , this does not turn out to be a convenient method for obtaining explicit solutions . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |
| 5 | Knowing my right hon. Friend 's concern for birds and particularly for our very valuable poultry industry , will he keep an eye on the latest scare for our ’ bootiful ’ turkey industry and ensure that that nonsense about which we are hearing — podo dermatitus — does not turn out to be a load of gobbledegook ? |
| 6 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 7 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 8 | You do n't know how to be a person without a family to prop you up . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how to be a hero ! ’ he shouted . |
| 10 | I did n't set out to be a sculptor but discovered at college it was much more of a natural thing for me . |
| 11 | Yasmin says that she did n't start out to be a model . |
| 12 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 13 | Erm which did n't turn out to be the case . |
| 14 | Perhaps he wo n't turn out to be the British Jean Renoir of a Glaswegian Woody Allen . |
| 15 | Hopefully the evening would n't turn out to be the disaster she 'd envisaged . |