Example sentences of "be not [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 2 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 3 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not to think of it , my dear . ’ |
| 5 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 6 | As it seemed , if she were not to die of her love she had to poison it ; and even , over its death agonies , to exult . |
| 7 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 8 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 9 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 10 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |