Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not to [be] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not to be a pawn in your game , Benedict ! ’
2 If you are not to be the owner of the module , the user name can be changed .
3 If you are not to be the owner of the module , the user name can be changed .
4 I hope that the Government will clarify their stance and reassure the people of Scotland that we are not to be the nuclear dustbin of the world .
5 But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles .
6 If it is not to be a positively charged convex curve , the intermediate rods need to be trimmed to form a straight edge .
7 You will need to have your stake ready well before planting begins because it will have to be prepared properly if it is not to be a waste of time .
8 That may be the way the world does its business , but it is not to be the way the Lord 's people should do theirs .
9 Thus far we have seen that the perspective from which to view bias is to be that of the reasonable man ; it is not to be the individual affected himself ( because he may be perverse , oversensitive , etc. ) , nor is it to be the ex post detachment of a reviewing court , ( which is the disagreement with the Barnsley formulation ) .
10 At first you may well have to put the puppy on its leash and keep it close to you if it is not to be an annoyance when visitors call .
11 And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all .
12 Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip .
13 But it was n't to be the for the friendship with Tiny that my father got to have the rattling good supper that that they provided in in in the servants room .
14 But it was not to be a happy underwater sampling session .
15 Second , unlike the ECSC , it was not to be a partnership of equals .
16 An Interim report ( Cmd. 6759 , March 1946 ) emphasized that a New Towns programme should be a matter for central Government : the location of a New Town should be a Government decision and that a new agency should be set up to plan and develop the town ( it was not to be a matter for local authorities ) .
17 It was not to be the work as originally written by Ramuz and Stravinsky for musicians , actors and a dancer , but a ballet with a plot of John 's own devising to the suite of Stravinsky 's music .
18 This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 .
19 It was not to be the last time .
20 It was not to be the last .
21 If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ?
22 If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ?
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