Example sentences of "it [be] not [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild
2 If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject .
3 Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses .
4 nine ninety nine well I supposed it 's not to miss
5 No it 's not to go together is it ?
6 It 's not to interface with more systems , there 's a lot more software in it and er therefore the companies concerned have got a lot more work to do .
7 Er it 's not to live there it 's just
8 you 've just taken a knock you did n't get the job , it 's not to say a job wo n't come up again now what you gon na do give up or keep trying ?
9 It 's not to say that we are against capital projects , we are not .
10 It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories .
11 And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way .
12 The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people .
13 Why are they doing it , if it 's not to do ?
14 It 's not to do with the
15 It 's not to make you the greatest soul winner .
16 It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present .
17 As long as it 's not to make a rabbit 's costume .
18 When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith .
19 When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith .
20 I 'd just like to ask er if it 's not to start on the er phase three before the spring of ninety five , it seems a long time two and half years time before they a , they make a start !
21 It 's not to , it 's not to isolate gamma rays .
22 But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned .
23 This is , undoubtedly , an important precursor of rational service-level planning , although it is not to say that the service infrastructure will necessarily develop from individual service plans .
24 If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other .
25 The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money .
26 That is , it is not to characterize consciousness generally .
27 the whole point about it is not to put on the act .
28 ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’
29 He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people .
30 In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan .
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