Example sentences of "[not/n't] to be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a chance not to be missed for Italian politics to make a new start . |
| 2 | She also feels it would be highly unsuitable not to be painted in full evening dress . |
| 3 | As for the questions of how far responsibility is to be allocated between us and our tempters , how much temptation human beings can ‘ reasonably ’ be expected to stand — these are obviously not to be answered by mere mortals . |
| 4 | Not to be bound by manmade laws of rank or fortune or education but to show His true glory in reaching out for everything we feel will reveal His variety and greatness . |
| 5 | The Ks — who have asked not to be named in full — are now physically safe . |
| 6 | It could be argued that since these are indefensible when applied , as they are currently , to conventional criminals , they ought not to be extended to corporate criminals . |
| 7 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 8 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 9 | 1.4 When an employee has been physically assaulted in the course of duty the police must be called in , unless the employee and the line manager make a case for this not to be done on professional grounds . |
| 10 | The essential feature of the community of Jerusalem Christians was their total other-worldliness , i.e. the three-key decision ( a ) between work and leisure ; ( b ) between consumption , saving and giving ; and ( c ) between accumulating and selling assets was not to be influenced by personal consumption and gain . |
| 11 | But if we are not to be led into false beliefs , it is necessary to realize exactly what the mystic emotion reveals . |
| 12 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 13 | For Oakeshott , modern collectivism is not to be traced to Hobbesian authoritarianism . |
| 14 | The care for the poor was not to be undertaken by private charity as and when people decided to give but was to be organised by the society . |
| 15 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 16 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
| 17 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 18 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 19 | He was not to be summoned at short notice or dropped in on , but was to be treated as one would a man whose time was as valuable as one 's own . |
| 20 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 21 | The judge said the case did not mark a sharp change in government policy , and emphasised it was not to be regarded of general application by planning authorities around the country . |
| 22 | Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) . |
| 23 | New phases bring new dominant tendencies , but are not to be regarded as self-contained episodes . |
| 24 | But that development involved the solution of theoretical problems and was not to be achieved without considerable theoretical labour . |
| 25 | I have also made a very rich soup from smoked salmon pieces , but be very cautious about your fish stock if it is not to be spoiled by excessive salt . |
| 26 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 27 | Police telephones were not to be used for private calls , said her mother . |
| 28 | Lifts are not to be used by single passengers . |
| 29 | They include ‘ speed restraint points ’ ( which appear similar to speed tables or raised crossings ) ; speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders ; speed control islands to interrupt unavoidably long and straight stretches of road where speeds would otherwise be excessive ; and speed control humps , though it is warned that these ‘ ought not to be used in new housing schemes when other speed reducing features would be effective . ’ |
| 30 | Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric , vigorous , healthy constitutions , robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence , then subsides just as suddenly ; a short , sharp course — Not to be used in prolonged , continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually . |