Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This performance was a rich mixture of styles : perhaps not one to put on record , but certainly not to be missed live . |
| 2 | Until about 1934 the Establishment explanation of these phenomena was remarkably unconvincing and seems to have reflected mainly a desire not to be asked embarrassing questions . |
| 3 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 4 | The specificity of literature , as Bukharin resolutely argued at the 1934 Congress , must be retained if the ideological effect of literature is itself not to be rendered impotent . |
| 5 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 6 | Hence it may be considered desirable for the subsidy not to be made available , and for marginal cost pricing to be replaced by average cost pricing . |
| 7 | This would include the opportunity of subsidised housing and , if this were not to be made available immediately , then additional general welfare or family benefits would be made available to pay for accommodation as necessary . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman asked first why the assessment credit , the skill check credit , is not to be made available to unemployed people . |
| 9 | She was too intelligent to enjoy this position , and too much of a feminist not to be made uncomfortable by its sexist implications . |
| 10 | ( d ) Liabilities Under the Partnership Act a new partner is not to be made responsible for liabilities of the firm accrued before he joins . |
| 11 | The phonetic sequences involved in either onomatopoeia or sound symbolism are clearly not to be considered semantic constituents . |
| 12 | I see , well I would of expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquor sir , they 've obviously not had a license for a month ! |
| 13 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 14 | ( Not to be thought ridiculous ) |
| 15 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 16 | Keynes divided the demand for money into three types : ( a ) the transactions demand , which is the demand by firms and households for holdings of money to finance day-to-day transactions ; ( b ) precautionary demand , which arises out of uncertainty and the desire not to be caught short of ready cash ; and ( c ) the speculative demand , which is the demand for money as a financial asset and therefore part of a wealth portfolio . |
| 17 | Production was a good in itself and therefore not to be held accountable for industry 's wastes or the ill-health of workers and their families . |
| 18 | senior police officers not to be held liable to individual officers for injuries received at hands of riotous crowd . |
| 19 | The feeling is growing that we should get our act together smartly if we are not to be left gongless at the end of a less deserving queue . |
| 20 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 21 | The mines were dangerous , the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor . |