Example sentences of "[not/n't] to be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CAA SRG input to them will be that a passenger who has paid to be flown , as a passenger , has the right not to be exposed to a higher risk than any other passenger who has paid to be flown . |
| 2 | This new approach , it seemed , was not to be made so publicly , not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met , and contended , and killed one another without malice . |
| 3 | These are not to be connected to the other compartments . |
| 4 | This is emphasised by the fact that the parent claimed to be asserting a ‘ right not to be dictated to ’ — at the expense of his/her child 's right to education . |
| 5 | It was a long game , and despite his dogged determination not to be shuffled to the sidelines Edward , naturally , was not privy to all the machinations . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish it were not to be lost to you . ’ |
| 7 | Many of the major issues have rarely entered the adversary debate ; changes often turn out on examination not to be related to parties at all ; and in the all-important field of foreign economic policy-making ( which sets the limits which shape the rest of economic policy ) the continuity of policy and its generally non-controversial character is what is striking . |
| 8 | ‘ She must 've gone away , ’ said Scarlet , gratified to hear of the dead plants and Barbs 's dereliction of duty , for she had been rather hurt not to be asked to mind Eliot . |
| 9 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 10 | It could be argued that since these are indefensible when applied , as they are currently , to conventional criminals , they ought not to be extended to corporate criminals . |
| 11 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 12 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |
| 13 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 14 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 15 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 16 | For Oakeshott , modern collectivism is not to be traced to Hobbesian authoritarianism . |
| 17 | A very quick try , 2 penalty kicks and Gloucester seemed not to be coasting to the win , but a very unlikely defeat . |
| 18 | THE take-over of Dan-Air parent company Davies and Newman by British Airways is not to be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , it was announced yesterday . |
| 19 | For example , meteorological in the phrase meteorological expert can be , and will be , restrictive but , as we have shown in Chapter 2 , it is not to be ascribed to the entity of its head noun ; quite generally , there is not the least problem about using an associative adjective restrictively . |
| 20 | Not to be invited to the waltz ? |
| 21 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 22 | We heard stories of such sadness and desolation that it was difficult not to be moved to tears . |
| 23 | To quote Bentham , ‘ The liberty of the press has its inconveniences , but the evil which may result from it is not to be compared to the evil of censorship ’ . |
| 24 | Moreover , through the agency of these men , many Scottish gentlemen found places as midshipmen on board East Indiamen and , with experience gained in that rank , could be advanced in the hierarchy of ship 's officers , although it must be conceded that an appointment as midshipman , or fifth or sixth officer of an Indiaman was not to be compared to the value of a writership or cadetship in the Company 's own service . |
| 25 | Meanwhile his Countess had been rescued from a Liddesdale cottage ‘ not to be compared to any dog kennel in England ’ by the chivalrous Kerr of Ferniehirst , in spite of past feuds with her husband 's family . |
| 26 | Bernier describes Shalimar as ‘ handsome and noble … although not to be compared to Fontainebleau , Saint Germain or Versailles . ’ |
| 27 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 28 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 29 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 30 | The new agreement signed by Fenech Adami and Jadallah Azouz al-Talhi , the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Liaison , amended the military clauses of the 1984 protocol , reducing them to a commitment on security , with each country undertaking not to be used to the detriment or harm of the other [ see also pp. 33435 ; 36243 ; 37014 ] . |