Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [be] ignore " in BNC.

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1 The reader who returns frequently to the poem , and ( in the way of obsessive readers ) delights in noticing meanings potentially nestling within meanings , will begin to be persuaded , by and by , that these hints of battle and brutality are not to be ignored ; yet they remain no more than hints , shadows of meaning cast by a powerful text .
2 Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ .
3 They may not be significant — they may not even be there — but , if they are , the danger of overlooking them is not to be ignored in their effects on others also .
4 Television and radio in particular have an influence upon the attitudes and preferences of worshippers and their power is not to be ignored .
5 It was not to be ignored .
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