Example sentences of "be [adv] [not/n't] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambiguously worded agreement effectively permitted the involuntary repatriation of Vietnamese " boat people " who had been screened out as " economic migrants " , by providing for the repatriation of those who " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " and according to some officials thereby created a fresh category of " acquiescent non-volunteers " . |
| 2 | In September 1990 Vietnam appeared to accept in principle the concept of " involuntary repatriation " , when it agreed to take back " economic migrants " who , " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " . |
| 3 | Go on , have a go alright , right I understand exactly what you 're saying Pauline , right the only thing is the wife and I have thought about it and we 're just not prepared to , you know what I mean , we 're gon na have to take a couple of days , because we wan na think it over |
| 4 | ‘ Some of them have caused controversy amongst my colleagues , because they 're just not accustomed to hearing something new . |
| 5 | Second messenger gated channels are very widely distributed , they 're certainly not limited to excitable tissues . |
| 6 | Furthermore , areas such as wards or enumeration districts used for the collection and analysis of census data are usually not related to administrative areas used by service providers . |
| 7 | Women are economic agents , although they are usually not perceived to be . |
| 8 | As a consequence , students are still not entitled to rebates , and the 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Students are clearly not expected to be able to question the linguistic judgments of commentators from a position of substantial technical expertise . |
| 10 | They are also not confined to the black community : Hewitt ( 1986 : 190 – 2 ) discusses at length the speech of a white boy which shows numerous Creole grammatical influences while remaining basically LE . |
| 11 | Hayek points to the fact that many social institutions which are essential to the successful pursuit of our aims are the result of customs , habits , and practices which are not the product of design or invention and which , although they govern thought and action , are often not brought to consciousness . |
| 12 | I 'm obviously not meant to be rich … he says , pouring himself another beer in Spain ! ’ |
| 13 | I 'm just not prepared to be contemptuated against or be the object of insinuations , that 's all . " |
| 14 | I 'm just not used to lucky breaks . |
| 15 | I 'm just not used to this . |
| 16 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 17 | The Bishops were mostly not opposed to liberty of conscience for Dissenters , the wiser of whom opposed the Declaration , but considered that only Parliament could revoke the Test Acts , so that the Declaration was illegal . |
| 18 | At a time when my country had a woman in the highest office of state , women were still not admitted to the lowest order in the church , that of deacon . |
| 19 | The Russians undertook to protect their new vassals , but were often not disposed to or were too poorly endowed with manpower to help when asked to do so . |
| 20 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 21 | What Jeffery ( and Matza , who quotes Jeffery in support of his own position ) are pointing to here is that whatever positivists chose as the causes of crime , even when they were ‘ external ’ such as ‘ social and group ’ factors , they always excluded the nature and operation of the criminal law from consideration ; such things were simply not taken to be implicated in the process of causing criminal behaviour . |
| 22 | They were certainly not affixed to the merchandise as labels in the same way that some furniture makers and picture framers did , as a recent examination of some one thousand coffins in the vaults at Christchurch , Spitalfields , has proved . |
| 23 | Finally , the judge held that the defendants , although not guilty of bad faith , had acted in breach of their fiduciary duties and were therefore not entitled to be paid their commission . |
| 24 | Yet , in spite of the leading position in its political life of the Orange family , it was also clearly not a monarchy in the normal sense of that term : its representatives were therefore not entitled to be treated as those of a crowned head . |
| 25 | The motion of the second ( coupler ) link is thus not seen to be represented by either of the two previous attachment procedures . |
| 26 | It is thus not linked to any specific existing tax within the EC . |
| 27 | Service employment is thus not restricted to the service industries . |
| 28 | Or it may be that the formal resource is just not perceived to be of all that much importance . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't cry , ’ said Den , ‘ It 's just not meant to be . ’ |
| 30 | In the event that the problem is still not resolved to your satisfaction , refer your problem is still not resolved to your satisfaction , refer your complaint to : Customer Relations Department , Midland Bank plc , Head Office , Poultry , London EC2P 2BX . |