Example sentences of "not [adv] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was bound to entail a new evaluation , which ( we may note ) might not necessarily be to Homer 's advantage , for all the undoubted " harmony " and " beauty " of the early epic . |
| 2 | The potential liability would pass to the wife as transferee ; to agree to elect for " hold over " can not necessarily be to her advantage . |
| 3 | These trees were planted by the , from the public purse but they are likely to be harvested by private owners , so I 'm not particularly be to happy about that . |
| 4 | He had not yet been to the Hankses ' cottage to visit Anna , and it was of this the gipsy first spoke . |
| 5 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 6 | Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians . |
| 7 | And now he 's made Big Ben and he has n't even been to London to see it . |
| 8 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |