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

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1 It 's part of our thinking not to be on an emotional roller coaster , ’ said Rod Davis , the New Zealand skipper .
2 Ernest Valko , who was appointed the chair of the court , declared on Feb. 12 that all the judges had accepted a recommendation not to be active politically .
3 Undoubtedly , databases not to be restricted to in-house use will soon be compiled at RBG , but need to be done so in the light of the rapid advancements being made internationally .
4 ‘ Not particularly , and I 'll thank you in the future not to be telling men it 's OK to come into my room .
5 The drafter may wish stipulations not to be " of the essence " , or to avoid any possible dispute about the consequences of a failure to perform .
6 Second , there was a marked trend for ( female ) referrals by GPs subsequently considered to be primarily about social relationships not to be sectioned .
7 Some 80,000 customers bought cards from us last year , and even with a 60p average unit price , this is turnover not to be sneered at .
8 ‘ I 'm sick as a parrot not to be standing , ’ said Nigel .
9 Brouhaha not to be confused with the Merseyside-inspired Brouhaha Festival being held in Budapest this year are staging a play about that most British of talking-points , the weather .
10 The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one .
11 They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness .
12 Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room .
13 Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies .
14 But these are technical considerations not to be dwelt on here .
15 A year later , however , he warned his president not to be misled by Wilson 's apparent reluctance to stay East of Suez .
16 He was , it seems , familiar enough with the nature of lesbians and gay oppression not to be surprised or swayed by this , but many of his colleagues in the Labour Party were horrified .
17 So give her reasons not to be naughty .
18 ( Mozart 's characteristic sotto voce seems in any case not to be in James Levine 's vocabulary . )
19 In this case not to be skinned , but to be saved .
20 In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession .
21 I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’
22 But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits .
23 He himself felt his lack of mathematics ; but in science it may be an advantage not to be too well-drilled — one who knows the rules may find it hard to go beyond them , and where great originality is needed the prizes sometimes go to outsiders .
24 Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail .
25 This is not an unproblematic statement ( as we saw in 1.4 ) , but is sufficiently true of a wide enough range of cases not to be cast aside lightly .
26 Particularly because they knew these were dark secrets not to be shared with anyone .
27 Manor not to be denied
28 and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison .
29 Its officials today orchestrate an annual plethora of money-spinning international tours of such proportions that it would be unreasonable for players fulfilling these official commitments at this level not to be compensated financially .
30 The ball diamond was a sanctuary not to be broken into by philistines .
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