Example sentences of "[is] not [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not something to take lightly because if the team does not field competitors in the way described on the list , then that team can be disqualified . |
| 2 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |
| 3 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 4 | The grim vision of ‘ green ’ folly ( ‘ the land [ covered ] with wind generators and the sea with wave generators ’ ) is not something to smile at . |
| 5 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 6 | It is not one to rally the world 's peasantries , pastoralists and other land-users to change the social conditions which bring about soil erosion in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ The ship is not ours to give . ’ |
| 8 | And so is not theirs to give away at all . |
| 9 | The basic difficulty is that although the vendor is usually the employer and owns the assets used in the business being sold , the right to conduct the business is not his to transfer . |
| 10 | Ca cera cera , whatever will be will be , the future 's not ours to see , Ca cera cera , what will be Ca cera cera ! |
| 11 | That 's not ours to wash darling |
| 12 | Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about . |
| 13 | All the reels retail at £49.95 : have a look at them next time you 're in a tackle shop — if there 's not one to suit , you 'll never be satisfied . |
| 14 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it . |
| 16 | It 's individuals , it 's not anything to do with Glasgow . |
| 17 | ‘ This haste , ’ said Paul , ‘ it 's not anything to do with Zeinab , is it ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not mine to sell , Harry . |
| 19 | " It 's not mine to sell . " |
| 20 | until they collect it , it 's not , it 's not mine to keep , have to give it back |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not mine to share with you . ’ |
| 22 | No like that 's not it to go with their mates . |
| 23 | Grip and balance are remarkable for such a heavy car but this is n't one to hustle down country lanes . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Tamburlaine is n't one to mince his words , as Bajazeth can testify : ‘ we use to march upon the slaughtered foe , tramping their bowels with our horses hoofs ’ . |
| 25 | Is n't something to do with the with the the way it 's mixed is n't is n't Chris talking about No ? |
| 26 | This is n't something to feel guilty or selfish about , but something to celebrate . |
| 27 | It 's hard is n't it to decide ? |
| 28 | No no I mean it 's er it it it is only polite is n't it to do that er |
| 29 | having said that it 's getting them , getting them back is n't it to do it what was I gon na say before I started saying something did you |
| 30 | It 's a heck of a time is n't it to let |