Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press are not normally allowed to be present during chambers applications . |
| 2 | Attention will be focused on young people who are not normally considered to be at risk in terms of drug misuse . |
| 3 | To some extent , also , the very operating procedures of an organization may be discriminatory in practice even if they are not overtly intended to be . |
| 4 | BIRTH OF A BUSINESS COUNSELLOR Chartered accountants are not usually motivated to be competitors , salesmen or traders . |
| 5 | ( c ) For left arithmetic shift , when the sign bit is changed ; rounding errors in right arithmetic shift are not usually considered to be a case of overflow . |
| 6 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 7 | ARC is a term commonly used to describe one or more illnesses that occur during HIV infection which are not formally regarded to be AIDS . |
| 8 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Children are not only encouraged to be proud of who they are , but to discuss any differences . ’ |
| 10 | A proactive search is undertaken to identify companies and businesses which are not necessarily known to be for sale but which meet the client 's acquisition criteria . |
| 11 | The word ‘ reasonable ’ in the definition indicates that the goods are not necessarily required to be of the very best quality but that the level of quality demanded depends upon the circumstances of the ease , including the price . |
| 12 | Yes they 're not really meant to be sent out |
| 13 | And I 'm not really prepared to be that … |
| 14 | Um so er but nevertheless those sort of things are n't often considered to be child sex abuse . |
| 15 | But we must accept that these occasional audible signals were not even meant to be heard by all the chorus singers : they were to be heard by the sub-conductor(s) , who would then relay the beat visually . |
| 16 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 17 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 18 | The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success . |
| 19 | It is worth noticing , however , a consequence of this justification of clause 3 ; this is that a belief is not generally considered to be justified by the mere fact that it is true , for otherwise clause 3 would be unnecessary . |
| 20 | This is not positively expressed to be the law , unlike section 18 , which expressly provides that the offence may take place in private as well as in public , and affords a private dwelling exemption . |
| 21 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 22 | It is not usually considered to be an important tone for foreign learners to acquire , though it is still useful practice to learn to distinguish it from other tones . |
| 23 | Secrecy can be damaging in that : ( a ) the sources of power and influence are obscured ; ( b ) public servants are not properly accountable ; ( c ) public participation is seriously hampered ; ( d ) justice is not often seen to be done ; ( e ) inefficiency and error are made more likely . |
| 24 | The fact that work performed-by one group is not necessarily found to be repeatable by another is nothing new . |
| 25 | It is not only thought to be so but it undoubtedly is so , and getting better in each and every part of the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | However , x 3 is not now required to be an integer so we can only branch on x 1 . |
| 27 | The above is not therefore intended to be totally inflexible even when agreed . |
| 28 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 29 | ‘ It was not well done to be caught without my bow , ’ Allen objected . |
| 30 | He caught the eye with a highly encouraging performance despite finishing last but was not seriously considered to be in the same league as the adored ‘ Dessie ’ . |