Example sentences of "is not to put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid 's role in this coup is not to put money on the eventual winner but to back other horses in the race , thus distracting the bookies ' attention and stopping them pulling their usual trick which is to depress the winner 's official starting price by similar last-minute shenanigans . |
| 2 | Seriously though the best thing is not to put temptation in front of people and not leave expensive items such as cameras and tools in the vehicle . |
| 3 | This is not to put gasifiers in a realm of esoteric complexity . |
| 4 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 5 | But to say , ‘ I promise to meet you ’ is not to put into words a promise of this other sort . |
| 6 | In the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor , at p. 102 , ‘ its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . ’ |
| 7 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 8 | In view of the record of Conservative Governments in always putting up VAT and in view of the Prime Minister 's promises on other aspects of policy , how can he pretend that his intention is not to put up VAT ? |
| 9 | the whole point about it is not to put on the act . |