Example sentences of "[not/n't] to be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have a very complex structure and at first sight they appear not to be connected in any way , ’ said Professor Mann . |
| 2 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 3 | It is a chance not to be missed for Italian politics to make a new start . |
| 4 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 5 | No general election was fought by the organization set up after 1911 , but there is little doubt that there was a massive improvement ; criticisms that were commonplace in 1910 were not to be heard by 1913 . |
| 6 | If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced . |
| 7 | She also feels it would be highly unsuitable not to be painted in full evening dress . |
| 8 | Yet this action ( 25 May 1810 ) , by creating a creole government , is rightly celebrated as the birthday of an independent Argentine Republic , although formal independence was not to be declared until 1816 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were motivated also by the determination of the militant leadership not to be diverted by such activities from the pursuit of better wages and working conditions for their members . |
| 12 | In Search of a Past affects not to be written at all — so much as researched , recorded and compiled . |
| 13 | But the gap between amateur and expert must be bridged if society is not to be split between two cultures . |
| 14 | The dissolution of the Lusignan lands was not to be completed until 1328 when the last claimants were finally compensated by the French crown . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ That of observing the merry-go-round of changing partners among my acquaintances ! ’ she shot back , determined not to be defeated in this exchange of niceties . |
| 17 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 18 | The nineteenth century brought a new kind of search for the basis and foundation of theology itself ; a fresh attempt to bring human awareness and experience into the centre of theological study ; the forging of more specialised techniques for the literary and historical study of the Bible , techniques whose application helped to raise what were often felt to be disturbing and challenging questions about its meaning and relevance as well as about the standing and authority of established Christian doctrines ; and the sharp new question whether Christian theology itself ought not to be subsumed under some more general study of religion and religions . |
| 19 | sometimes they turn out to be brothers , or cousins , or sometimes not to be related at all . ’ |
| 20 | The dread question was not to be asked after all . |
| 21 | We all know that there is some disturbance outside — you have already said that you will make a statement on that — but it is unusual for the doors not to be locked by this stage in a Division . |
| 22 | The Ks — who have asked not to be named in full — are now physically safe . |
| 23 | This is the fundamental explanation of the continuous growth of population and its full effects were not to be felt in some countries until the 1930s . |
| 24 | However , the old outlet pipe is not to be replaced before 1994/95 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 27 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 30 | 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 . |