Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 2 | ‘ Harry you are not to go near that cottage not even of going near it — and I can read your thoughts by now . |
| 3 | The psychologist and the healer must be under rigorous discipline if they are not to fall into this trap . |
| 4 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |
| 5 | you 're not to climb on this gate , look there 's a little tiny bit of rust there already |
| 6 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 7 | The movies of the depression were not to go after that kind of realism . |
| 8 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 9 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 10 | This is not to disparage in any way the commitment of health workers to physical rehabilitation which will sustain or restore people 's physical independence , especially following illness or accident . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not to deny in any way that informational processing leads to decisions that have ‘ downward ’ psychosomatic effects . |
| 12 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 13 | It 's not to interface with more systems , there 's a lot more software in it and er therefore the companies concerned have got a lot more work to do . |
| 14 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 15 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 16 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 17 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |