Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonuses are not wholly to be deplored . |
| 2 | It is important to understand that the ratio decidendi of a particular case is not wholly to be found in the case itself ; rather one must look to the way in which later courts interpret the case . |
| 3 | But they are not all to be interpreted literally : in some the imagery is conventional , in others the self-abasement is ironic . |
| 4 | This last feature of the Nottinghamshire story , at least , is not entirely to be recommended — though it has , in fact , been widely repeated around the country . |
| 5 | They should be taught to recognise that the attitudes and behaviour of a character or narrator are not necessarily to be identified with the attitudes or beliefs of the author . |
| 6 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 7 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 8 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 9 | To say this is not necessarily to be an obscurantist hankerer after vitalism , a wistful adherent of a dualist view of " the ghost in the machine " . |
| 10 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman , we we were interested in buying House , so I think I 'm not necessarily to be found erm , |
| 12 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 13 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 14 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 15 | Andrew Andrews , a medical legal expert and legal adviser to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority , said it was not enough to be given legal powers and training . |
| 16 | Amzallag says that to be successful ‘ it is not enough to be technically good . |
| 17 | Not enough to be a dealer , only enough for what the police termed ‘ personal use ’ . |
| 18 | Not enough to be offensive , but enough to make the older woman sparkle in return . |
| 19 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 20 | Given the fact that insistent negation in dreams and the speech is interpreted by psychoanalysis as resistance to a truth which the conscious mind would sooner deny , are the negatives not perhaps to be disregarded altogether ? |
| 21 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 22 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |
| 23 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 24 | In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ . |
| 25 | They have been learning the in professional golf every shot counts and that in order to win , brilliance has not only to be attained , it has to be sustained . |
| 26 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 27 | She was grateful not only to be with her aunt and uncle in that last year , but to be near Ernest and Charlotte so that they could discuss , usually when the older couple had gone to bed , the life which lay so tantalisingly before them . |
| 28 | The value of such study is clearly not only to be found in an increased familiarity with literary references . |
| 29 | I was happy in the work because of the acceptance by the government of my own interpretation of the task of public relations , namely not to be a propagandist agency acting on the assumption that the government was always infallibly right ; not only to be an information service about government policies , plans and activities ; but to be an agency interpreting the government to the people , and feeding back to the government the reactions and feelings of the people . |
| 30 | And make no mistake , the rum ration is very important to a matelot ; not only to be sipped or gulped , but something to be used for bargaining or the repayment of a favour , or even bottled and taken home on leave . |