Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 32 | No word to your mother mind , she 's not to be upset by thinking things are n't as they should be . ’ |
| 33 | There is plenty of opportunity for practice , and summer sketching parties beckon those who prefer not to be studio-bound in the warmer months . |
| 34 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 35 | Kelly chose not to be specific over the precise areas for concern other than to point to bad results . |
| 36 | Yet most would want to agree that such belief ought not to be contradictory in any way ( while bearing in mind the distinction between paradox and contradiction referred to at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 37 | MEN working for Darlington council have been urged not to be shy about reporting incidents of sexual harassment . |
| 38 | Hilton comments : All through Scale 2 Hilton implies that the pursuit of this inner calling is open to all : He is careful not to be over-precise in formulating rules of practice which might not be helpful to all temperaments and all needs . |
| 39 | Er not to be honest with you , no I have n't . |
| 40 | I have already indicated why I consider these rates not to be appropriate at this stage . |
| 41 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 42 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 43 | Perhaps the artists in this exhibition and book are united by only one thing other than that they have made use of some aspect of photographic technology : most of them are more likely than not to be familiar with the ideas of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard . |
| 44 | Fourthly , whatever the truth of the last statement , project objectives are underpinned by certain values and assumptions entailed in a particular educational ideology , and these , too , ought not to be unrecognised by any thorough evaluation . |
| 45 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 46 | It is desirable , in addition , to contrast the instrumental colour of the two lines , that is to say , not to be content with using two sets of exactly similar instruments for the two melodic lines . |
| 47 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 48 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 49 | Here there exists a political will pressing for the development of competitive markets ; this would seem not to be present to the same extent among the other Member States of the EEC . |
| 50 | I am sorry not to be present in Cardiff today . |
| 51 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 52 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 53 | Socialists or social democrats in Eastern Europe tend not to be doctrinaire in their answers . |
| 54 | Pope John 's message to heads of state — broadcast on Vatican Radio on 25 October — made the front page of Pravda the next day under the banner headline : ‘ We beg all rulers not to be deaf to the cry of humanity ’ . |
| 55 | Innocent III instructed his court not to be importunate over gifts and he attempted to introduce fixed chancery charges , but the gratuities expected by officials were a part of normal life and these the pope could not control . |
| 56 | Despite huge debts and a still disproportionate reliance on farming , an enviable record of strong growth and low inflation matches an appetite for change that ought not to be surprising in a society where half the population is under 28 ( and more than half the nuns and priests are over 60 ) . |
| 57 | I realized that I was having to struggle not to be nice to him . |
| 58 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 59 | If one takes the not inconsiderable trouble of following his analysis right the way through , it is hard not to be impressed by the picture he draws of an intricate network of equivalences and contrasts , corresponding to the different possible metrical divisions in the poem , and layered one upon the other in a kind of elaborate verbal counterpoint . |
| 60 | In other words , all bedding is likely to be cross.bedding , though often on so gentle a scale as not to be recognisable in the field . |