Example sentences of "not [verb] to be so " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this all seems like another blow for bureaucracy it is not intended to be so . |
| 2 | A third party right can not be revoked or modified by the parties if it is established that the right was not intended to be so revocable or modifiable without the third party 's consent . |
| 3 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |
| 4 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 5 | However , those two qualities — innocence and a sense of responsibility — do not appear to be so much in demand in children 's stories if we are to believe a booklet published by the Evangelical Alliance . |
| 6 | Compared with other regions , such as Bordeaux ( 750–950 millimetres ) , Burgundy ( 630 millimetres in the Côte d'Or ; 700millimetres in Beaujolais ) and the Loire valley ( 620–700 millimetres ) , however , this does not appear to be so high . |
| 7 | For computer staff this did not appear to be so . |
| 8 | True , it is a risk — many a spring in Britain has thrown a frost at us in April , even May is not unknown — but you are not going to be so daft as to muffle up and go out to do the pruning just because the date or some idiot article says the time is right . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to be so timid and unsure . |
| 10 | ‘ He proved today that he is very fast but I can tell him that tomorrow is not going to be so easy , ’ said Fittipaldi , who clocked 101.472mph . |
| 11 | In North Yorkshire , Orkney and Wester Ross ( predominantly part-time ) this was not thought to be so important . |
| 12 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 13 | The next one is a rather different one in style , not attempting to be so nationalistic , chauvinistic . |
| 14 | Ironically , a Labour government would not have to be so generous as the Tories . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind the notion of a portfolio spread of risk , directors do not have to be so risk-averse to all types of investment — especially where , with new technology , it may indicate the creation of an option to stay in business . |
| 16 | But it does not have to be so . |
| 17 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 18 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 19 | The engine only produces thirty-two horse power , which I thought might be a problem in performance terms but , for this unique aircraft , it does not prove to be so . |
| 20 | No doubt a few treated awareness as implied approval , but for most people that did not seem to be so . |
| 21 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 22 | In the oceans , this does not seem to be so . |
| 23 | Latin and Anglo-Saxon temperaments are at variance about what would constitute an acceptable noise level ; and young people do not seem to be so intolerant of noise as their elders . |
| 24 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 25 | There is however no doubt that the denomination of a purpose as proper or improper in such circumstances raises issues of political and social choice which do not cease to be so by being expressed in the language of vires . |
| 26 | But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive . |
| 27 | The truth was that he could not bear to be so close to Chris and yet feel so distant . |
| 28 | And in Korea , the repression of opposition parties and of student and workers ' protest suggested that policies suitable to early phases of industrialisation might not continue to be so acceptable . |
| 29 | In other words the courts are not required to be so vigilant in his case as he is presumed to have negotiated the terms of his contract . |
| 30 | Look I do n't want to be so famous that I have to write autographs all over the place , and ca n't travel by bus in case I 'm mobbed . |