Example sentences of "[pron] is not [adj] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 2 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 3 | Camilla has had 20 years of friendship with Prince Charles and she is not prepared to do anything else which could put that at risk . |
| 4 | I would counsel against taking this imperatival path , first on the rather weak ground that it is not necessary to do so . |
| 5 | The court is required to appoint a guardian ad litem for the child , unless it is satisfied that it is not necessary to do so in the interests of the child . |
| 6 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 7 | It is not necessary to do this to get something out of the exhibition . |
| 8 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 9 | May I make the point to Les , and it 's true , it is not illegal to do things without planning permission |
| 10 | It is not essential to do this , but grouting with mortar will prevent unsightly weed growth forming alter . |
| 11 | The court is likely to fix a directions appointment in all cases but it is not obliged to do so . |
| 12 | Once the threshold criteria in s31 are satisfied the court has power to make a care or supervision order but it is not obliged to do so . |
| 13 | I have already written about the geographical distribution of fossils ( especially Mesozoic brachiopods ) at nauseating length , so it is not appropriate to do so again . |
| 14 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 15 | The effects of high temperature and high humidity are often interrelated and while it is possible to accelerate temperature effects by storage at sill higher temperatures , it is not possible to do this with humidities that are already high . |
| 16 | If it is not possible to do this , various additions can be made to kill the growth , but , unless dosing is maintained over the growing period ( usually May , June , and July in the U.K. ) , the algae can return . |
| 17 | Research in the Arts is mostly conducted on an individual basis and it is not possible to do full justice to this activity here . |
| 18 | If so , and if we can measure it ( though it is not easy to do so ) , that again tells us something about their welfare . |
| 19 | It is not easy to do this : the tensions between control and autonomy , accountability and delegation , or action and consultation , are real and unavoidable . |
| 20 | But it is not easy to do this without becoming crude , and , since the art appeals principally for its sensitiveness to what it is mocking , crudity has the effect of alienating those readers the pastiche should most attract . |
| 21 | This is because when there is an actionable nuisance the law provides a legal remedy by way of injunction or damages and this it is not prepared to do in respect of every odour found to be annoying or objectionable ; neither would it be practicable especially since odours are notoriously subjective in nature affecting some individuals and not others and causing a variety of symptoms . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
| 23 | What it is not entitled to do is to impose its moral view of the matter on other people . |
| 24 | That it is not able to do . |
| 25 | It pretends that the court is able to investigate those reasons in great depth , whereas in practice it is not able to do so , and in any event that investigation is not going to save the marriage . |
| 26 | Overtaking the car in front when it is not safe to do so and then cutting in front . |
| 27 | Pulling out of side roads when it is not safe to do so . |
| 28 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 29 | I think very often you do need professional help and it is n't possible to do it with family and friends because of the interaction that actually makes it worse . |
| 30 | Well , this is a problem we have basically because again , your your media etcetera is male dominated erm everything we come across in in our line is male dominated so we have got to break down these barriers and it is n't easy to do ! |