Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , since theirs is not to reason why , they attack , with disastrous consequences . |
| 2 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 3 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 4 | She is not to think she can get away with behaving hurtfully . |
| 5 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 6 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 7 | ‘ My advice to you is not to waste your time reading that one , ’ he said rudely . |
| 8 | But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned . |
| 9 | This is , undoubtedly , an important precursor of rational service-level planning , although it is not to say that the service infrastructure will necessarily develop from individual service plans . |
| 10 | If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other . |
| 11 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 12 | That is , it is not to characterize consciousness generally . |
| 13 | the whole point about it is not to put on the act . |
| 14 | ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’ |
| 15 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 16 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 17 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 18 | What then is the function of the student in the lecture period , if it is not to fill a notebook with what is written on the blackboard ? |
| 19 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 20 | Whatever the role of teachers , it is not to push back the frontiers of knowledge , nor to determine a new direction in which a discipline can move . |
| 21 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 22 | … It is to be competent where those who control can not be competent , yet it is not to control . |
| 23 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 24 | To say that it has been the poorer for it is not to denigrate the work that was done . |
| 25 | It is not to dictate the course of the Hearing , and only the Chairman of the Panel can have a person removed . |
| 26 | It is to learn when fish spawn and avoid disturbing them ; it is not to dig vegetation from the bank ; and it is to work quietly and unobtrusively . |
| 27 | There are of course passages where Klemperer 's gravitas is amazingly powerful , as in the first movement , but the first ‘ Nachtmusik ’ requires greater momentum if it is not to appear diffuse . |
| 28 | Already programs are being written that will automatically define the amount of white space each character of a new type-face needs in which to breathe , if it is not to look cramped ( at the moment this time-consuming procedure is done by eye ) . |
| 29 | However , what you should always remember is that the picture must contain a reasonable amount of detail if it is not to look dull . |
| 30 | You know how important it is not to look exceptional . |