Example sentences of "[not/n't] to be [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 2 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 3 | Chemistry was not to be conflated with theology , for God was the Author , not the Spirit of creation . |
| 4 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 5 | Not to be ranked with the world 's great love letters , but probably the most Sarah had ever had . |
| 6 | Outside these works , though , hobbits are not to be met with . |
| 7 | If the vendors conclude that a purchase and sale transaction is not to be consummated with you , or if you decide to withdraw your interest , you will upon request immediately return to KPMG Peat Marwick all copies of the Information Memorandum and all Copy Information in your possession or in the possession of your Representatives , and you will destroy all copies of any computer software analysis , compilations , studies or other documents or records prepared by you or your Representatives for your internal use which are based in whole or in part on the Information without retaining any copies or notes thereof or extracts therefrom . |
| 8 | A very interesting standard gauge light railway in North Northumberland was the North Sunderland Railway , not to be confued with Sunderland in Co Durham . |
| 9 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 10 | ( A weakness is his habit of repeating lines merely for this purpose : Heine 's Allnächtlich im Traume , not to be compared with Schumann 's setting , suffers badly in this respect . ) |
| 11 | From Cuba to Japan is a long leap , and the ‘ economic difficulties ’ of the largest ELT market in the world are not to be compared with those of other countries . |
| 12 | It was a start , but not to be compared with Stella 's debut as Ptolemy . |
| 13 | ‘ Not to be compared with the tycoon , eh ? ’ eh asked nastily . |
| 14 | While Dicey played a major role in shaping this tradition , his particular views are not to be equated with it . |
| 15 | but less superficially it is a fact that Christian truth is not to be equated with our formulations of it and we must always satisfy ourselves with pointers to it . |
| 16 | a In Gardynik , it was held , dismissing an appeal by the defendant , that sexual assault was not to be equated with the former offence of indecent assault , with its highly subjective moral overtones . |
| 17 | But indifference to the truth of what he publishes is not to be equated with carelessness , impulsiveness or irrationality in arriving at a positive belief that it is true . |
| 18 | I would like to have read more on the subject by Frank Bowling , whose views seem not to be harmonised with Araeen 's somewhat dogmatic viewpoint . |
| 19 | The expression " transfer of assets " , the House of Lords held , was not to be infused with any different meaning by virtue of the fact that it came under the definition of " settlement " . |
| 20 | When it came up for its third reading on 21 June it was referred to a select committee who on 18 July reported that they were of the opinion that the bill ought not to be proceeded with . |
| 21 | Following a two-day hearing , on 13 December the judge upheld the submission and directed that the indictment should remain on the file not to be proceeded with without the leave of the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | ‘ His Majesty 's mails are not to be interfered with . |
| 23 | ‘ Ma foi , the world 's greatest detective is not to be interfered with either . |
| 24 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |
| 25 | Lord Wilberforce pointed out that the problem was not to be dealt with as though it were a philosophical question which distinguishes identity from attributes : … |
| 26 | Yeah I , I suppose it is a tt it is a bit of a problem erm particularly for some of the stuff which you know it , it tends not to be dealt with very , very deeply in sort of general textbooks like some , you know , erm I think things like er some of the , you know some , some of the stuff that erm ah for example er people like Rob do erm |
| 27 | The situation would be different from this only if the internal discriminations carried with them some experiential ‘ feel ’ that was not to be identified with some physical process of which BS could know . |
| 28 | God is not to be identified with what we have called a part of the world 's furniture : God is no more an object inside the world than an object outside it . |
| 29 | The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance . |
| 30 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |