Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 2 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 3 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 4 | Men are not so resourceful , they do not know how to be friends and companions to themselves . ’ |
| 5 | People who did not know how to be useful dropped out of Good Neighbour schemes . |
| 6 | It was a generation that had to be brave and now did not know how to be peaceful . |
| 7 | She would not know how to be happy . ’ |
| 8 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 9 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 10 | We should remember that he does not claim definitely to be refuting the Aristotelians , but merely to be pointing out what may be said against them . |
| 11 | Petitions did not begin simply to be pressed on parliament in large numbers on a few issues ; the range of grievances expanded in petitioning . |
| 12 | God grant that it may not startle only to be read and pondered by thoughtful brains as well as by feeling hearts … |
| 13 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 14 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 16 | Why not decide not to be ? |
| 17 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 18 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 19 | Similarly , your subconscious can not try not to be a failure without first of all picturing failure . |
| 20 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 21 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 22 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 23 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 24 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 25 | Rocks may not seem initially to be particularly magnetic . |
| 26 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 27 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |
| 28 | Clelia did not pretend not to be delighted by Clara 's delight . |
| 29 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 30 | We must try to ensure that , as a result of our own genetic manipulation , they do not turn out to be unpleasant surprises . |