Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not there to be moral arbiters . ’ |
| 2 | You 're not here to be brave . |
| 3 | You may be worried about other body fluids like spit or piss , but HIV is only ever found in these in very small amounts which are n't enough to be infectious . |
| 4 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 5 | As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible . |
| 6 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 7 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 8 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 9 | It 's not possibly to be obvious to say you write an estimate of financial communication , but the first year against the should say this is brought up for review . |
| 10 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 11 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |