Example sentences of "[prep] is not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 2 | Since to is not found with most auxiliaries , they provide a further test for the hypothesis that the bare infinitive implies the absence of a before-position with respect to the event it expresses , which will be the topic of the next chapter . |
| 3 | The purpose is not to is not to train in the sense of imparting knowledge to people who do n't have it , but rather to put whatever experience they have into context , on which we can have something to contribute . |
| 4 | This would justify the fact that to is not used with this sense of let . |
| 5 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 6 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 7 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 8 | In the context of the rest of chapter 29 , as already set out , it seems clear to us that the delay or deferment means , at its lowest , wrongful delay or deferment , such as is not justified by the circumstances of the case . |