Example sentences of "not [verb] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be defended simply because in certain circumstances not helping is to be preferred to helping . |
| 2 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 3 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 4 | Angela Brickell would not have been to his taste . |
| 5 | Most travel journalists will not have been to the Giants ' Grotto , of course , but they will certainly have seen the handy paragraph in the travel company press pack . |
| 6 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |
| 7 | He had come in early , not having been to bed , and placed his information on Coffin 's desk . |
| 8 | Indeed whereas in Morgan v. Palmer the defendant had no statutory authority to demand a fee and the plaintiff had no option but to pay it in order to obtain the licence , in this case the corporation were fully entitled to levy a toll on the landing of limestone which they were not informed was to be burnt . |
| 9 | To say aloud that God does n't exist is to thereby negate the Devil . |