Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] not [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I 'm not designed to be pregnant I 'm not . |
| 2 | Yes — but you are not expected to be a nurse . |
| 3 | And while you are not expected to be perfect ( who is , ever ? ) you are expected to have something to offer . |
| 4 | You should be able to forgive yourself once you realise that you are not expected to be perfect ; indeed , if you were , you would not need to be here at all — your spirit would be continuing its learning process somewhere else . |
| 5 | As a rule , you are not expected to be technical , and should avoid being drawn into technical conversations . |
| 6 | LIBRA You are not considered to be a selfish person by nature . |
| 7 | You are not come to be a companion to me . ’ |
| 8 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 9 | I was knocking and then and then he said and er I just stood there he said like you know you 're not allowed to be here it 's too late , it 's the boys ' area erm come on , sort out , you know , come on sort it out you know like he says that |
| 10 | The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans , but we are not meant to be reading it . |
| 11 | They were obviously delighted to be able to use Phoebe to prove their conviction that child stars burn out if they are not raised to be as dull as anyone else 's children . |
| 12 | They are not intended to be narrowly restrictive , ‘ only-possible ’ solutions : instead , you should find that they suggest what kinds of factors you ought to be identifying in your analysis , and the range of possible solutions we think are sensible . |
| 13 | They are not intended to be prescriptive but are illustrative of the flexibility of National Certificate Modules in planning a curriculum . |
| 14 | The programs given in this manual are for demonstration and learning purposes ; they are not intended to be taken and used as working programs without modification to suit your needs . |
| 15 | They will suffer still more communication deprivation if ‘ uneconomical ’ public telephones are withdrawn from villages ; yet , sadly , in the early 1980s many rural public telephone boxes are being removed by British Telecommunications , in spite of campaigns to retain them , because they are not felt to be economically viable . |
| 16 | They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination . |
| 17 | It is often ‘ security considerations ’ — fears about security and control — which exacerbate the physical conditions of prisoners ; for example , they may be left for 23 hours a day in their cells because they are not trusted to be let out without a high degree of staff-intensive supervision . |
| 18 | They are not considered to be non-viable either on the grounds of their isolation and remoteness from the communities they serve , or on the grounds that they are physically falling into a state of dilapidation . |
| 19 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Consequently , in the absence of any flight recorders ( they are not required to be carried in smaller private aircraft ) the reconstruction of the flight path is that much more difficult . |
| 21 | They are not meant to be listened to . |
| 22 | Moreover , except in the context of a common market they are not thought to be of interest to outsiders . |
| 23 | If they fail to win 50 per cent this time , they are not expected to be able to rebuild the alliance . |
| 24 | Hence staff sample covertly where they can , without gaining access to the discharger 's premises ; or they sample at night or weekends when they are not expected to be at work , and any routine sampling done during the day is never by appointment : |
| 25 | It is acceptable to ask them over for a meal they are not expected to be able to manage without a caring woman . |
| 26 | Q.Ts. wishing to attend a course to which they are not deemed to be attached may also attend on a daily basis at £2.50 per session . |
| 27 | They 're not paid to be amateur psychiatrists , but to be players , to be actors . |
| 28 | Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know . |
| 29 | They 're not meant to be crude or sensationalist , they give you an idea of the kind of thing that your fire fighters face on a regular basis . |