Example sentences of "[coord] be [not/n't] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 2 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 3 | Food and its enjoyment are very serious business and are not to be hurried . |
| 4 | Some of the entries in the archive are marked as being obsolete , either because they represent Supplement entries which have been incorporated into earlier OED entries , or because they have been discarded by lexicographers and are not to be included in the New OED . |
| 5 | It may be supposed that Cole 's comments refer only to the production of goods for retail in the Consumers , Movement 's own stores , and are not to be read as relating to the more general development of the industrial co-operative sector . |
| 6 | They mark our perception of that fact , and are not to be taken as carrying theory with them-not even so much theory , perhaps , as is suggested by William James in speaking of a " dualism " of " mind knowing and thing known " . |
| 7 | They informed the Headmaster in April that " the 39 Articles are not to form any part of the tuition of the Schools and are not to be enforced " . |
| 8 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 9 | These books are for reference only and are not to be removed from the library . |
| 10 | They have a very distinctive taste and are not to be wasted by offering them to an indifferent chef to prepare . ’ |
| 11 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 12 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 13 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 14 | Unfortunately I have been informed that they are both confidential and are not to be published . |
| 15 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 16 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |
| 17 | The fires of her fury against him , long buried , had risen up , and were not to be contained . |
| 18 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 19 | Where * appears , the generic name has been introduced recently and is not to be found in the older sources , while names marked ** are based on Irish exemplars , no Scottish names being known , and have been adapted for Gaelic as necessary . |
| 20 | The actual source of life is not known and is not to be attributed to the God that mankind can worship , that is , a definable God developed with life , and therefore not responsible for its origin . |
| 21 | Though himself a Lancastrian from Morecambe , he is interested in the whole tradition of the race and believes that walking round and round the same circuit would destroy the whole spirit of the race and is not to be contemplated . |
| 22 | Because it always involves raw materials and techniques it is always dependent Upon a context , and is not to be thought of , in humanist vein , as an isolated expression of the essential creativity of human beings . |
| 23 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 24 | The charter that was drawn up represents , in fact , just such a claim : it was a political weapon in the battle for status and funding and is not to be taken simply at face value . |
| 25 | It must also be emphasised that the honorary degree is in a category all its own and is not to be confused with the degree awarded after successful study ; it is not an alternative . |
| 26 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 27 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 28 | Mr. Beazley submitted : ( i ) the Court of Justice authorities have laid down that the wording of the Schedule is to be given an independent interpretation and is not to be construed in accordance with national law . |
| 29 | It remains the law that a trade union is not , and is not to be treated as if it were , a body corporate , but a much wider measure of tort liability is now imposed by the Employment Act 1982 . |
| 30 | Like Title V on foreign and security policy , being ‘ intergovernmental ’ it may be ratified by the Government without parliamentary assent , and is not to be debated in Parliament . |