Example sentences of "be not [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The killings are not believed to be terrorist-related . |
| 32 | They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination . |
| 33 | They were obviously delighted to be able to use Phoebe to prove their conviction that child stars burn out if they are not raised to be as dull as anyone else 's children . |
| 34 | The major problem with the use of n-grams is that the candidate strings remaining after look-up are not guaranteed to be words . |
| 35 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 36 | Because it is the convention that second reading is concerned only with general principle of the bill , textual amendments are not allowed to be proposed at this stage . |
| 37 | The alabaster relief , along with four panels , School of Valencia , depicting scenes from the life of St Ursula ( expected to realise Pta60 million ; £341,000 ; $579,500 ) are not allowed to be exported . |
| 38 | Japanese Gardens are not designed to be absorbed as a whole , but as a series of harmonious elements that can nevertheless be appreciated in isolation . |
| 39 | The women may be " disparaged " ( 4271 ) but are not shown to be outraged at what has happened to them . |
| 40 | Saliva , tears and urine are not known to be infectious . |
| 41 | A number are not known to be from previous material , and Wulfstan may have taken them from records of Cnut 's administration . |
| 42 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 43 | Consequently , in the absence of any flight recorders ( they are not required to be carried in smaller private aircraft ) the reconstruction of the flight path is that much more difficult . |
| 44 | the elimination of parts of a photograph or other original that are not required to be printed . |
| 45 | In other words the courts are not required to be so vigilant in his case as he is presumed to have negotiated the terms of his contract . |
| 46 | The reason for the procedure is that the consideration shares issued by the bidder to accepting shareholders are issued for a non-cash consideration ( ie the shares in the target ) and accordingly are not required to be offered to the bidder 's shareholders under the pre-emption provisions of CA 1985 , s89 , because that section only applies to new issues for cash . |
| 47 | You are not come to be a companion to me . ’ |
| 48 | The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans , but we are not meant to be reading it . |
| 49 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 50 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 51 | The early efforts are not meant to be marked on promise alone ; yet it is hard not to do that . |
| 52 | The illustrations are not meant to be accurate — for use as maps — but they succeed brilliantly as indicators of the terrain likely to be found on these walks . |
| 53 | These definitions are not meant to be academically accurate , but to describe the meanings generally intended . |
| 54 | Nevertheless , such fictions are not meant to be taken literally , for it can be dangerous to indulge the Gothic imagination in ordinary life , as Catherine learns to her cost at Northanger Abbey . |
| 55 | They are not meant to be listened to . |
| 56 | These are not meant to be comprehensive surveys of the literature , but are simply designed to illustrate the application of rational expectations to specific areas . |
| 57 | General SVQs are not meant to be narrowly vocational — although I think the name may not be entirely helpful here . |
| 58 | Religions as sociological entities are not meant to be more than stepping-stones to an appreciation of the profound Mystery at the heart of reality . |
| 59 | The banana 's are not meant to be |
| 60 | Indeed , if the actions are not deemed to be free and rational ( in the sense that the offenders are capable of understanding their nature , moral meaning and consequences ) then they will not usually be defined as crimes in legal terms . |