Example sentences of "not [verb] to be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to be rude to him . |
| 2 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 3 | Many early treaty collections , nevertheless , were not intended to be available to the general public at all . |
| 4 | Department or the County Treasurer 's Department is not considered to be relevant to the needs of erm , the County Council , the people of Lincolnshire , and I think it 's reasonable to ask that question , and to hope that erm future conservatives speakers in this meeting , on this paper will give a clear indication as to what will be the effects of a budget reduction . |
| 5 | And the answer was the County Council is committed or not prepared to be uncommitted to a road north of Knaresborough . |
| 6 | Therefore , the day-by-day changes in the timing of rhythms seen in the aged do not appear to be due to day-by-day irregularities of habits , and this suggests an internal cause due to the body clock . |
| 7 | Does it apply to a public utility which may or may not appear to be similar to a local government ? |
| 8 | We are left with only five texts in which the linguistic confusion does not appear to be attributable to textual interference . |
| 9 | At one of the interviews where both an arts adviser and an administrator were present , differing views were expressed , but surprisingly , the ambiguity of this did not appear to be apparent to either interviewee . |
| 10 | Many of the events do not appear to be amenable to prevention . |
| 11 | Pregnancy itself does not appear to be harmful to women with HIV infection . |
| 12 | The prisons do not appear to be full to overflowing as in so many European countries . |
| 13 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 14 | And he did not look to be equal to the formidable task of escaping the net that had been spread for him . |
| 15 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 16 | You 're not going to be able to just look at it and write down something equals two X are you . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’ |
| 18 | Now rotations are frequently used in agriculture , and if you 're locked into a rotation , it does n't really matter what happens to current price , you 're not going to be able to af to change your output , right , because you 've got to er , keep into this , in this rotation . |
| 19 | That clearly is not going to be acceptable to those authorities . |
| 20 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 21 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 22 | Governors not wishing to be accountable to local government have the choice of being accountable directly to central government by taking the school into grant-maintained status . |
| 23 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 24 | On the other hand , you will probably not wish to be subject to a correspondingly onerous commitment if you are the one who is keen to go . |
| 25 | They should not try to be fair to other countries . |
| 26 | ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at such a sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 27 | However in this situation the auctioneer may not accept a bid on behalf of the seller ; s57(4) and ( 5 ) provide : ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid by or on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at the sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 28 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 29 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 30 | Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms . |