Example sentences of "not to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 2 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |
| 3 | Some years ago , TVS absorbed Channel TV , covering the Channel Islands , as this small market proved not to be viable on its own . |
| 4 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 5 | It is actively supported by a small part of the population , and tacitly tolerated by many more , out of either fear or a simple desire not to be involved in a political battle . |
| 6 | Carbery looked at him warily , his eyes pleading not to be involved in such dangerous speculation , and shook his head slowly without speaking . |
| 7 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 8 | Er I I would prefer not to be involved in elaborate discussion of the theology of involved . |
| 9 | I came here to see the installation of an air-conditioning unit , not to be involved in your personal life ! ’ |
| 10 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |
| 11 | Sidonius depicts the scheme as madness ; nevertheless he maintained his friendship for Arvandus , and he may even have given up his office of prefect of the City of Rome in order not to be involved in sentencing his friend . |
| 12 | However I think it 's important to stress that right from the early days of the conflict we had determined not to be involved in providing large scale emergency relief . |
| 13 | Even to build up moderately high pressures sufficient to shatter rock it was realized that a closed system was required in order for the pressure not to be relieved by the expulsion of water into adjacent voids . |
| 14 | The pursuance of damages through car hire schemes was held not to be champertous by the House of Lords in Sanders v Templar ( Times Law Reports , 13 January 1993 ) and an increasing percentage of personal injury claims relating to motor accidents will come through this source in the future . |
| 15 | The buyer is said not to be one of the large five record companies — Thorn EMI of the UK , Sony , Warner , Polygram and Bertelsman — which between them dominate 70 per cent of world sales . |
| 16 | Supremely happy not to be one of life 's ‘ practical men ’ . |
| 17 | occasionally his mother allowed both Patrick and Senga to attend one of her functions , but obviously tonight 's grand affair was not to be one of them . |
| 18 | Although most agency workers are taxed and pay social security contributions as if they were dependent employees , and most think of themselves as an employee of the agency for which they work , the relationship between them and these agencies has been deemed not to be one of employment . |
| 19 | ‘ And better still not to be one of them . |
| 20 | Cheddington is determined not to be one of those . |
| 21 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 22 | In fact , the resources , notably teachers , were not to be available after the war . |
| 23 | For some technical reason certiorari used not to be available in such cases ; but the aggrieved party applied for mandamus to require the other parties to act on the footing that the visitor 's decision was invalid . |
| 24 | As you will appreciate , the best and possibly the only time to carry out such projects is the spring/ early summer period , partly because of the weather , partly because volunteers tend not to be available in the summer . |
| 25 | They turned out not to be elementary at all , they are complex things . |
| 26 | They are not to be married until Easter . |
| 27 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 28 | Western traders allowed into Japan were to be restricted to foreign settlements and other prescribed areas , but were to have the benefits of extraterritoriality , i.e. they were not to be subject to the laws of Japan , but any misdemeanour or problem ( including those that concerned Japanese ) was to be dealt with by a court presided over by the consul of the country of the national concerned . |
| 29 | Among negative rights , we should include the rights : not to be indoctrinated ; not to be subject to unnecessary ideology ; not to experience racialist , sexist or religious bias ; and not to be subject to unprofessional practices by teaching staff in admissions , in teaching and in examining . |
| 30 | Among negative rights , we should include the rights : not to be indoctrinated ; not to be subject to unnecessary ideology ; not to experience racialist , sexist or religious bias ; and not to be subject to unprofessional practices by teaching staff in admissions , in teaching and in examining . |