Example sentences of "to not [be] " in BNC.

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1 He professes to not be ready for that .
2 But , it 's up to organisations like the ones we work for to respond to that and to not be doing the planning on behalf of other people .
3 I wonder if that final rock shelf might turn out to not be as sloping as we think it is .
4 Oh Setver that 's the thing that make it pretend to not be the
5 Luckily we are playing well enough to not be under much pressure at all lately .
6 So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester .
7 The attention is not so much of a problem when the dogs are puppies as the idea is to train the dog to not be afraid of people , but when this happens to a fully trained guide dog accompanying a blind person it can cause problems .
8 let the other man , the conservatory man know , it 's not fair to not be here to .
9 I do n't want to not be in it but I do n't want to , you know
10 Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er
11 Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on .
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