Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be [not/n't] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 2 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 3 | This year 's Climb for the World weekend in early June dawned misty and rainy but thousands of walkers and climbers were not to be put off . |
| 4 | Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena , tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition , but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes . |
| 5 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 6 | Excessive and lustful kissing , lustful embraces , suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown . |
| 7 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |