Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes very , you know , so I mean I 'm not to know that he 'd not already told somebody else . |
| 2 | ‘ Now if anything be certain it is this , that where there are general words in a later Act capable of reasonable and sensible application without extending them to subjects specifically dealt with by earlier legislation , you are not to hold that earlier and special legislation indirectly repealed , altered , or derogated from merely by force of such general words , without any indication of a particular intention to do so . |
| 3 | She was not to know that , once at sea , they would only be allowed on deck at certain times , like dogs let out to exercise . |
| 4 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 5 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 6 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 7 | We are not to argue that ‘ I ’ refers to an intangible , invisible , inaudible Cartesian spiritual substance . |
| 8 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 9 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 10 | It 's not to say that we are against capital projects , we are not . |
| 11 | It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 14 | When I suggest that women have a strong ability to communicate with each other and form a collective body , it is not to imply that the individual should lose herself entirely in this . |
| 15 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 16 | He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand . |
| 17 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 18 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |