Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 2 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 3 | ( symbolic action should not have to be explained ! ) |
| 4 | With this end in view the United States could not afford to be seen by the USSR as firmly aligned with Great Britain . |
| 5 | The defendant would not appear to be represented , therefore the committal will have to be dealt with by the way of reading out all the statements . |
| 6 | If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future . |
| 7 | Mister Johnny ca n't bear to be teased , really ca n't bear it ] It sends him into a terrible rage . |
| 8 | One such seat would not seem to be an excessive demand in pursuit of an accepted objective , but it was more than the Conference would accept . |
| 9 | Bob Kernohan would not object to being called a very conservative Conservative . |
| 10 | Thus , the best way of proving anything that the other side will not agree to is to be prepared to call the witness to give evidence about it at trial . |
| 11 | Readers will not need to be enlightened concerning performance standards for these are , as usual , commendably high . |
| 12 | Readers will not need to be reminded of Keynes 's objections to that theory of labour market adjustment ! |
| 13 | Changes to the data may only involve changing the relevant parts of the database , and the many programs that may use the data will not need to be changed . |
| 14 | For a start , this will mean cars wo n't have to be driven into concrete blocks at 30mph , or be written off in seatbelt anchorage tests , saving the cost of at least two expensive prototypes . |
| 15 | Gazza can not wait to be one of them again . |
| 16 | Journalists can not claim to be above the law , but what they can claim , in every country which takes free speech seriously , is a right to publish first , and take the risk of conviction afterwards . |
| 17 | Apart from all else the concentration required to hear mentally an orchestral passage while seated in a bus or train or standing in the Underground can not fail to be beneficial . |
| 18 | And in Korea , the repression of opposition parties and of student and workers ' protest suggested that policies suitable to early phases of industrialisation might not continue to be so acceptable . |
| 19 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |
| 20 | The management should n't try to be one of the boys . ’ |
| 21 | Companies should not continue to be penalised by a reference to an inherent uncertainty in the auditors ' report when the directors have given it prominent and full disclosure . |
| 22 | If all else fails , then throwing the air pump out of the window might not prove to be such a bad idea after all . |
| 23 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 24 | The young man , whose name was Merbury , was eager and inexperienced , and took it for granted , as an honest man well might , that his story of complete and shattering victory , of the capture of so many of the active nobility of Scotland , and of a bright lustre added to the name of Percy and of England could not fail to be pleasing to his sovereign . |
| 25 | Unfortunately insufficient members turned up to achieve a quorum , but ex-chairman , Robin Brookes , took the opportunity to state that the guild could not continue to be run on a rotation of volunteers . |
| 26 | Then Lissa would n't need to be around so much , would she ? ’ |
| 27 | Many more sophisticated inductivists would not wish to be associated with some of the characteristics of my naive inductivism . |
| 28 | Visitors ca n't fail to be spellbound at Uredale Glass , where you can watch skilled craftspeople blow and handform beautiful glass vases , bowls , goblets , paperweights , etc. using traditional skills , while you enjoy the informative running commentary . |
| 29 | It does stress , however , that " existing equipment would not have to be instantly scrapped and replaced by untested prototypes . |
| 30 | Despite earlier fears , the Baltic Exchange will not have to be demolished and is to be repaired at the cost of about £80 million . |