Example sentences of "be n't [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , they have no power over political parties , who are n't expected to be legal , decent , honest or truthful . |
| 2 | Women are n't encouraged to be as confident in themselves or as single-minded the way men are . |
| 3 | ‘ Welshmen were n't born to be right . |
| 4 | We were n't trained to be acquisitive . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Fine for a 1950s semi , but old buildings were n't intended to be hermetically sealed ; preventing moisture getting in and out causes real damage . ’ |
| 6 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 7 | I 'm sure they were n't meant to be there , but the solo probably felt so good that they decided the Ds were n't horrific enough to worry about . |
| 8 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |
| 9 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 10 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 11 | The Foreign Office has now issued a warning to tourists about terrorist activity in Egypt , and says the reason it was n't given out sooner is because British tourists were n't thought to be at risk . |
| 12 | It 's vital that music in school is n't seen to be something entirely separate from what they are familiar with at home on TV . |
| 13 | ‘ When a product has already travelled from its place of origin there is n't intended to be any restriction , ’ said Alison Fellows of the European law unit at Dickinson Dees in Newcastle . |
| 14 | Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory . |
| 15 | It 's not likely that they 'll fall entirely from grace , and this is n't meant to be a sob story of any sort . |
| 16 | This is n't meant to be a test , a mental MOT for your man , but they are all topics you can talk about , which will help you get to know each other better . |
| 17 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 18 | You see , this report is n't meant to be read , it 's meant to be put into the computer . ’ |
| 19 | Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally . |
| 20 | And this , I mean , this is n't meant to be a good band anyway , is it ? |
| 21 | Well , all right , your editorial ‘ Holy bat-poo ’ ( 18 February ) is n't meant to be taken too seriously , but why vilify the harmless bat ? |
| 22 | The development work is n't thought to be linked to Sun in any formal way , but the news comes just a week after Sun revealed that it is playing with a 64-bit Sparc , and outlined its intent to define the ground rules for such environments through a new release of Sparc International 's interface specification for 64-bit Sparc architectures ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 23 | The likelihood is that OSF will issue a Request For Technology in the area some time next year — none are planned for 1992 — and the stuff is n't expected to be complete until 1995 . |
| 24 | It sure as hell was n't intended to be policeman-friendly . |
| 25 | Charles Spencer said : ‘ There was no thought of exorcising a second time because my father was n't believed to be very ill . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I know I was n't born to be a size eight or 10 , ’ she says . |
| 27 | She was n't allowed to be friends with him , because long ago she had played with him in the fields while her mother gleaned what on Townsend 's Farm . |
| 28 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't meant to be mad . |
| 30 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |