Example sentences of "be not [pron] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside . |
| 2 | So you can work it out now , how old I am Erm , what I do , is I run training courses and er , they are Management Skills Courses , they are not anything to do with insurances , because I know absolutely damn all about insurance . |
| 3 | The rights are not his to dispose of . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not one to fuss about women 's rights . |
| 5 | It 's nothing , these are n't nothing to do with Mark . |
| 6 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 7 | And they were n't nothing to do with House ! |
| 8 | More than one researcher abandoned the field with the argument that if the biochemical changes really ‘ coded for ’ memory in the brain then they would be too small to be measured , and if they were large enough to be measured then they probably were n't anything to do with memory . |
| 9 | They were about five yards apart and he was just deciding they were n't anything to do with him when they both took out pistols . |
| 10 | The grim vision of ‘ green ’ folly ( ‘ the land [ covered ] with wind generators and the sea with wave generators ’ ) is not something to smile at . |
| 11 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it . |
| 13 | It 's individuals , it 's not anything to do with Glasgow . |
| 14 | ‘ This haste , ’ said Paul , ‘ it 's not anything to do with Zeinab , is it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not mine to share with you . ’ |
| 16 | No like that 's not it to go with their mates . |
| 17 | Is n't something to do with the with the the way it 's mixed is n't is n't Chris talking about No ? |
| 18 | One Protestant businessman in North Belfast who has rejected paramilitary demands for money said last week : ‘ Racketeering is n't anything to do with the cause of Ulster or loyalty . |
| 19 | ‘ This is n't anything to do with me , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It is n't anything to do with government at all . |
| 21 | And it says then it is n't anything to do with intelligence or anything like that . |
| 22 | That er is n't anything to do with people spying for instance ? |
| 23 | They were talking about language on Radio Four and erm what people e , it is n't anything to do with the training course we 're on , it 's the language . |
| 24 | Topper was not one to strive for an imaginative simile when a well-used one came to hand . |
| 25 | He had been first away , for he was not one to linger with colleagues . |
| 26 | Deaconess Tilley was not one to shrink from such sights , but she turned her attention away from this one . |
| 27 | ‘ Two sharks got into the perspex tunnel and believe me the startled look we got from Sean was not anything to do with his acting ability , ’ said Terence . |
| 28 | ‘ We loved it when there was n't anyone to play with . |
| 29 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 30 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |