Example sentences of "but it be not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heart of the study is an examination of state railways in two countries , Britain and Spain , but it is not intended to be a book primarily ‘ about railways ’ . |
| 2 | It is possible to have a system in which ‘ workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations , etc but it is not going to be ‘ unsophisticated ’ . |
| 3 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 4 | Hooliganism is more habitual and more fully developed in Britain than elsewhere , but it is not confined to Britain . |
| 5 | The procedure is particularly apt if there is a risk that the goods may be destroyed or disposed of before trial of the action but it is not confined to such situations . |
| 6 | Section 2(1) ( c ) applies to the evasion of future debts , but it is not restricted to such debts . |
| 7 | And other people other people think spelling should be changed but it 's not going to be and they 're still going to mark it one the exam if you do n't get it right . |
| 8 | But it 's not going to be the answer to the problem . |
| 9 | Fletcher added : ‘ If we can win the one-day series it will be very pleasing after what has gone on so far , but it 's not going to be easy . |
| 10 | There 's going to be a seventy acre community nature park eventually , so that 's quite an area to cover , but it 's not going to be all trees — it 's going to be some open glades for butterflies and so on , so there should be a nice variation there . |
| 11 | And I think we 're in the rounds now thinking we 've got the chance of going up , but it 's not going to be easy and there 's lots of football to be played yet . |
| 12 | It 's not a particularly convincing rationale , but it 's not meant to be — any more than George Orwell was literally predicting the future in 1984 . |
| 13 | There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 15 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 16 | But it was not meant to be a paean to Ecstasy . |
| 17 | But it was not going to be easy ; some few years after Malmesbury 's comments another accredited diplomat noted à propos of an evening at the Tuileries : |
| 18 | The only evening dress she had brought with her was the colour of well-polished copper , which added a little colour to her pale complexion , but it was not going to be warm enough and so she took the mink that had been part of her trousseau from the wardrobe and slung it around her shoulders . |