Example sentences of "[adj] and [not/n't] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us be kind and thoughtful and not to be unkind and hurt other people . |
| 2 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 3 | Her concerns were here , in front of her , concerns that were domestic and intimate and not to be spoken of in the same breath as supposedly greater events . |
| 4 | Payne is too wise to the lightning-like unpredictability of operatic disaster to be smug about these exciting prospects , but they certainly make Opera North look increasingly like a company entering its prime and not to be missed . |
| 5 | and he 's busy and not to be disturbed |
| 6 | ‘ There is a crisis in Marxism ’ , Sartre announced at the beginning of the Critique ; this crisis , not the first and not to be the last , Sartre characterized as the result of a paradox in which historical materialism had become ‘ at one and the same time , the only truth of History and a total indetermination of the Truth ’ ( I , 19 ) . |
| 7 | The next few miles are delectable and not to be hurried , and indeed are better appreciated by a traveller on foot than in a car . |
| 8 | Mrs McMahon offered inadequate comfort and made bad worse by saying she was sure it looked lovely and not to be so silly . |