Example sentences of "[not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even from the jails themselves , the cries of hope , of despair , implorings not to be forgotten escape : Muriel ‘ Rucia ’ Dockendorff was seized by Chilean security police soon after the bloody coup of 1973 and ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 2 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 3 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 4 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 5 | In Search of a Past affects not to be written at all — so much as researched , recorded and compiled . |
| 6 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 7 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 8 | Their culture was not to be considered at all in the constitution . |
| 9 | Others resented Dr Browne 's tactics , for the church was clearly not to be brought into such public disrepute . |
| 10 | In such an unclear area , it was not to be left to Dáil members to decide , irrespective of whether it still remained an appropriate public measure . |
| 11 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 12 | Not to be warmed by the sun . |
| 13 | Not to be true to the materials but false to them ! he wrote . |
| 14 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 15 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 16 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 17 | Not to be sidetracked for any reason whatsoever . |
| 18 | The large lady was not to be put off , however . |
| 19 | Into the Finn 's head there had strayed , not to be expelled , the words of an English nursery rhyme that a child had once recited to him . |
| 20 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 21 | ‘ His Majesty 's mails are not to be interfered with . |
| 22 | ‘ Ma foi , the world 's greatest detective is not to be interfered with either . |
| 23 | I could tell because she was nibbling her fingernails and then trying not to . |
| 24 | A lot of them were pretending not to , but somehow she was the centre of an invisible circle . |
| 25 | Or have been asked not to by her husband … ’ he put his arm round his wife . |
| 26 | This sympathy ( and attention ) hardened my resolve not to be put upon . |
| 27 | As for the glamour attached to some jobs and not to others : forget it , it 's a sham . |
| 28 | Well , with prices the way they are I 'd be crazy not to … |
| 29 | The aim should be to out-climb every other glider nearby and not to be satisfied with just staying up , unless the conditions are very poor . |
| 30 | Do n't be over suspicious and try not to over react — this could be unfair on your child . |