Example sentences of "not [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ friendships ’ , however , tended to involve a third party , for as Bair stresses , it was not possible to be close to de Beauvoir without becoming involved with Sartre as well . |
| 2 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |
| 3 | The owner said it 's not right to be mean to working class people . |
| 4 | He was not disposed to be easy with her . |
| 5 | They were not afraid to be concerned about the misery and unhappiness of men and women in society , and to ask whether and how positive happiness could be attained . |
| 6 | What I like about Mark is that he 's not afraid to be funny with the crowd . |
| 7 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 8 | It is not easy to be sure of their function or functions . |
| 9 | Again , it is not easy to be dogmatic in answer to the question whether a court is exercising a judicial function when it entertains a reference from the Attorney-General as to what the law is on a particular point . |
| 10 | The influence of an international market is not easy to be precise about , though the appearance of work in a Biennale or an art fair can be impressive in itself . |
| 11 | One obvious problem in establishing and using age norms is that , for any given child , it is not easy to be precise about when any specific skill has been mastered . |
| 12 | Clearly it is not easy to be precise about the numbers of mentally disordered persons who need help , but some figures of those actually receiving care or treatment are a rough guide to the size of the problem . |
| 13 | With the Editor 's name on the cover , it is not easy to be objective about Sally B — A Very Special Lady ( Midland Counties Publications , 48pp , illus , sbk , available from B-17 Preservation Ltd ) but as all the contributors have given over their royalties to keeping Sally B in the air , we can slip a ‘ plug ’ in . |
| 14 | The last of these must be the overriding consideration ; it would be of little use to develop a unit on an unusual system not readily available to the target population in schools , and not likely to be available in the near future . |
| 15 | The OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) has recently argued that governments are not likely to be successful in securing increased public sector efficiency unless there is a greater role for the price mechanism and market forces . |
| 16 | However , given the resource implications involved in financing students for two years , this is not likely to be forthcoming in the near future . |
| 17 | Those who are not responsible for raising taxes are not likely to be responsible about spending them . |
| 18 | Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium . |
| 19 | Where a defamatory remark is made baldly , without reference to any fact from which the remark could be inferred , it is not likely to be defensible as comment , especially if it imputes dishonesty or dishonourable conduct . |
| 20 | Felicitys were not supposed to be irresistible to men . |
| 21 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not ashamed to be excited at the discovery that I have relatives in this world after all . |
| 23 | Unfortunately I was not able to be present at the actual service in January 1947 . |
| 24 | Doreen Cowie was unfortunately not able to be present on the night , and sends her own very best wishes to Edith via our column . |
| 25 | It is not important to be concerned with the historical veracity of these statements ( for in any case they were often added to , touched up and re-interpreted ) but with the impact that they had . |
| 26 | It is not difficult to be critical of these propositions . |
| 27 | The star , not inclined to be bored by his own performance , gave a slightly different interpretation every time , keeping the rest of the cast on its toes . |
| 28 | " After five days of bad food and bad stomach , the king was not inclined to be suspicious of someone who said that Prince Rainbow had sent him to make him better . |
| 29 | And remember , it is not necessary to be asleep in order to refresh your mind and body ; you simply need to be mentally and physically relaxed — and there are techniques you can learn to help you achieve this . |
| 30 | Earlier we noted that , in the absence of cost changes , it was not necessary to be able to actually measure the abstract concept of surplus in order to form the conclusion that monopoly would bring about a reduction in it . |