Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remedy may not be to delay criminal law teaching to a later stage in curricula , because the observations already made might well apply to whatever introductory course in substantive law one selects . |
| 2 | The pluralist answer to these arguments would not be to deny the existence of conflict ; on the contrary , one of the great virtues of the pluralist model in the eyes of its proponents is the emphasis on the positive benefits of conflict and diversity within a society . |
| 3 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 4 | The aim of such a meeting would not be to see whether any staff members have particular responsibility for the event but to try to develop a shared understanding of why it occurred . |
| 5 | Your aim should not be to lose weight , but to bring your eating habits under your control . |
| 6 | The aspiration of art can not be to serve and thereby reaffirm the status quo by delivering products which give people what they want and supposedly need . |
| 7 | ‘ But the immediate impact of the yen 's rise will not be to spur overseas investment , but rather to squeeze exporters ’ profits and so dampen their ability to invest abroad , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Professor Gower noted in his review of investor protection , which ultimately gave rise to the FSA , that the aim should not be to protect fools from their own folly but merely to ensure that ordinary people were not made fools of . |
| 9 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |
| 10 | I wonder whether the way to proceed might not be to write our own . |
| 11 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 12 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 13 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 14 | In 1926 Fenner Brockway , who had been imprisoned during the First World War , wrote in a newspaper article : ‘ The object of penal reformers should not be to reform the prison system but to abolish it ’ ( Priestley 1988 : 175 ) . |
| 15 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 16 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 17 | Greenfield told the court he had regarded the university as a ‘ playground for the wealthy ’ and decided , whatever he did with his life , it would not be to help the rich get richer and more powerful . |
| 18 | Its purpose will not be to make recommendations about sentencing or to be a plea in mitigation . ’ |
| 19 | The case submitted by the DoE was that ‘ the purpose of making fuller use of SDOs would not be to make any general relaxation in development control but to stimulate planned development in acceptable locations , and speed up the planning process ’ . |
| 20 | to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking . |