Example sentences of "we be not [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
2 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
3 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
4 | ‘ We are not trying to ‘ get at ’ women who smoke by publishing these figures , ’ says ANSR . |
5 | We are not trying to foist them upon you . |
6 | We are not called to ‘ empathize ’ or to ‘ identify ’ with their struggles and hopes but to continue our struggle in solidarity with them . |
7 | We are not summoned to that but to the great banquet afterwards . |
8 | ‘ But we are not seeking to be a showcase or represent specifically German interests ’ , explains Pontus Hulten , who is assisted in his work by an international consultative committee . |
9 | Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity . |
10 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
11 | We are not claiming to be able to prove His existence . |
12 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
13 | No , you say , all in control , we are not going to sleep together . |
14 | ‘ We are not going to Buckingham Palace , ’ Morton said calmly . |
15 | We are not going to be a loser ever again . |
16 | We are not going to be divided by class . ’ |
17 | As Mr Major flew to Canada for talks on the crisis with US President George Bush and Canadian premier Brian Mulroney a Downing Street spokesman said : ‘ We are not going to be intimidated . ’ |
18 | If we go into the New Year in 10th place , we are not going to be able to do it . ’ |
19 | Dad decided that we are not going to Saltcoats this year because of the weather . |
20 | Before he took office in 1985 , Cerezo said , ‘ We are not going to be able to investigate the past . |
21 | But we are not going to be apologetic about our efforts . |
22 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
23 | ‘ We are not going to be in business long term , ’ Mr Crandall said at a dinner with the reporters . |
24 | Asked if he felt the cult leader , David Koresh , was manipulating agents , Mr Ricks replied : ‘ As far as being jerked around , we are not going to be jerked around . ’ |
25 | We are not committed to opting in by anything in either clause 2 or any later part of the treaty . |
26 | It is noticeable that a number of other politicians abroad have made it perfectly clear that this country becomes a more attractive place for investment — and therefore for jobs and prosperity — because we are not committed to the costs of the social chapter . |
27 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
28 | And at the syntactic level we are not committed to any one particular formalism , but rather can consider a number of different formalisms . |
29 | There is a direct correlation between morale , motivation , job satisfaction and absenteeism and staff turnover , if people are happy they generally want to stay for us they 're much more loyal and work harder and when we 're managing an area it becomes a lot easier because we are not having to , people are well trained they do the things right first time , you 're not having to correct their mistakes . |
30 | Unlike many organisations with sporting connections we are not oriented to competition but to participation . |