Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 2 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 5 | As a method it appears not to be favoured for the removal of large concentrations of highly odorous compounds , which is necessary in the animal by-product industry for example . |
| 6 | It appears not to be input-specific but may provide a generalized boost to impulse traffic . |
| 7 | A /t/ which occurs before the recognition point must be used for the purposes of recognising the spoken word : but it appears not to be used for making phoneme-monitoring decisions , since monitoring latencies are related to the word 's recognition point , not to the point at which the target occurred . |
| 8 | What 's more , though it seems not to be generally realized , Pound recognized what had happened and acknowledged it ; he did so in the public welcome he gave to Binyon 's translations of Dante , which employ a very archaic and convoluted diction indeed . |
| 9 | In this case it seems not to be treated as a delaying tactic . ] |
| 10 | It proved not to be easy . |