Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [not/n't] to be " in BNC.

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1 While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds .
2 According to this account the formation of associations during pre-exposure and the loss of associability are not to be thought of as rival interpretations of latent inhibition .
3 If this possibility of fraud is not to be an insurmountable barrier to recognizing such unions as marriages , what is the solution ?
4 That kind of independence is not to be achieved by the student acting purely independently .
5 The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war .
6 Excessive editing of videotape was not to be encouraged in 1961 and so Newman worked to the formula of having live action done in the electronic studio , and the Visual Effects , plus other control critical sequences , done on film — a small , but important development in British science fiction programme making .
7 An element of prudence is not to be excluded .
8 Such judicial expression of anger is not to be found anywhere in India , and , one would even say , the common law world .
9 T. J. Clark for the defendant argued that the adequacy of consideration is not to be investigated ; that the defendant had a right to complain and that promising to forgo that right constituted good consideration .
10 He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ .
11 True , the local history researcher is more likely to be pursuing investigations through source materials provided by Anglo-Saxon charters , medieval rolls , maps , land grants , muster documents and the like , but the uses of heraldry are not to be despised in the processes of rounding out historical themes .
12 Any chance of conversation was not to be missed .
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