Example sentences of "be not [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside . |
| 2 | I am not one to accuse the hon. Gentleman of misrepresenting the position ; I know and like him too much for that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rights are not his to dispose of . |
| 5 | but I know Kay was n't very pleased with Sister about these sort of erm stout things , cos Sister said well if they 're not collected by the time of the next jumble , we sort of empty the cupboard and put them all in for erm the jumble sale Kay said to me they 're not hers to do that with |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not one to fuss about women 's rights . |
| 7 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 8 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 9 | Even though I 'm not one to go out , some days you wish you did n't have someone dependent on you and could just go out and about . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not one to speak ill of my betters , as you know , ’ said Mrs Cornforth , ‘ but her Ladyship 's remarks within Thomas 's hearing about my profiteroles Angels would not forgive ! ’ |
| 11 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 12 | It 's nothing , these are n't nothing to do with Mark . |
| 13 | I do n't think I 'm gon na get that much joy myself , cos their reluctant are n't they to do anything that 's not new . |
| 14 | Patterned carpets are hard are n't they to find things in . |
| 15 | And it 's difficult you know where we 're having to make , fill gaps that really are n't ours to fill |
| 16 | Are n't I to have any pleasure in life at all ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 19 | And they were n't nothing to do with House ! |
| 20 | The only sadness was that my parents , who had supported me so fully in the earlier days , were n't there to enjoy my success . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is not something to take lightly because if the team does not field competitors in the way described on the list , then that team can be disqualified . |
| 24 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |
| 25 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 26 | The grim vision of ‘ green ’ folly ( ‘ the land [ covered ] with wind generators and the sea with wave generators ’ ) is not something to smile at . |
| 27 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 28 | It is not one to rally the world 's peasantries , pastoralists and other land-users to change the social conditions which bring about soil erosion in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ The ship is not ours to give . ’ |
| 30 | And so is not theirs to give away at all . |