Example sentences of "not to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy tried not to be pushy , and Josie slowly thawed . |
| 2 | Try not to be nervous . |
| 3 | He ignored the bluntness of the queries as he went on , ‘ Misty also says you are not to be nervous . |
| 4 | The rallying point for the counter-attack against the deployment of sexuality ought not to be sex-desire but bodies and pleasures . ’ |
| 5 | A few heterosexuals struggle , mainly unsuccessfully , not to be anti-lesbian themselves and against the desire to render their own position safe . |
| 6 | It would appear not to be necessary to provide a range of shafts for iron clubs and possibly not for woods either . |
| 7 | The latter could be reached by a majority vote among the nine : unanimity in the High Authority was not to be necessary . |
| 8 | He thought aspects of the Anglo-Catholic movement had danger ; and that though Ramsey was not a danger , he would have such sympathy with them as not to be vigilant . |
| 9 | Quite frankly , young man , we would be insane not to be vigilant . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The bright sword and kingly face turn out not to be critical . |
| 12 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 13 | Some years ago , TVS absorbed Channel TV , covering the Channel Islands , as this small market proved not to be viable on its own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 16 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in late July 1991 maintained that fears voiced at a Council of Europe conference on east-west migration in January 1991 of a massive influx of immigrants from eastern Europe [ see p. 37969 ] were proving not to be well-founded . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Carbery looked at him warily , his eyes pleading not to be involved in such dangerous speculation , and shook his head slowly without speaking . |
| 19 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 20 | Er I I would prefer not to be involved in elaborate discussion of the theology of involved . |
| 21 | I came here to see the installation of an air-conditioning unit , not to be involved in your personal life ! ’ |
| 22 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fourteen partial or complete sets are known , especially from graves in Kent , but also from the upper Thames valley where they tend not to be complete . |
| 26 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 27 | His purpose was not to be charismatic ; he would be himself in whatever mundane way it took . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |