Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] be [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if working-class crime is promoted by the same features of capitalism as produce socialist consciousness this is no basis for automatically equating them : working-class crime may express purely personal goals or , if there are some wider underlying objectives , they can not necessarily be assumed to be socialist ones . |
| 2 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 3 | Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes . |
| 4 | That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character . |
| 5 | Whether this is the case or not , even the more special crimes such as this one can not automatically be assumed to be outside the scope of the postclassical perspective . |
| 6 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 7 | Their receipt from the firm of business letters with updated letterheading would doubtless be convincing evidence of actual knowledge , sed quaere where the correspondence is of a wholly formal nature ( eg a compliments slip accompanying a cheque in settlement of a bill ) which would not ordinarily be expected to be read carefully by the recipient . |
| 8 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 9 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |