Example sentences of "you [am/are] not [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 2 | ‘ You are not fit to be in this school ! |
| 3 | Of course , being so intimately concerned with the notion of travel , a degree of mobility may bring more rapid promotion opportunities but unlike other organisations of a similar size , there is no pressure here to relocate — should you decline a move because you are not ready to be uprooted , you will find that your reasons are respected and your prospects unaffected . |
| 4 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 5 | ‘ You are not ashamed to be the guest of a traitor to his country ? ’ |
| 6 | In the central and southern parts where there are Moslems , a pig 's life is easy — because one of the nice things about being an ‘ unclean ’ animal is that , not only can you not be eaten , you are not supposed to be killed , even for raiding crops . |
| 7 | Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium . |
| 8 | ‘ So you are not likely to be mistaken ? ’ |
| 9 | The twentieth century may seem threatening at times for someone with these problems , but at least you are not likely to be struck down in your prime by cholera , smallpox or bubonic plague , and there is little risk of being eaten by lions . |
| 10 | You are not likely to be asked to write a report on a complex or recondite subject at the stage that you have reached in your studies . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not supposed to be out . |
| 12 | You 're not supposed to be here ! ’ |
| 13 | You 're not supposed to be egotistical . ’ |
| 14 | " Come on , you 're not supposed to be here , young lady . " |
| 15 | You 're not supposed to be here . ’ |
| 16 | You 're not supposed to be reading the news . |
| 17 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 18 | You 're not supposed to be |
| 19 | You 're not supposed to be on here ! |
| 20 | You 're not supposed to be walking round the corridor with it though ? |
| 21 | You 're not supposed to be using a ruler Emmy . |
| 22 | So we got on that bus , and he did n't like it , this bus driver , oh , you 're not supposed to be on here |
| 23 | If you needed a blood transfusion er you 're not likely to be driving a car straight afterwards . |
| 24 | erm , and you 're not likely to be able to get into that line of work again |
| 25 | you 're not prepared to be his er , what you call it ? |