Example sentences of "are not to " in BNC.
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| 31 | In academic , exploratory research where the results are not to be analysed and presented in statistical fashion a research worker may feel that he or she can not have an assistant to help with interviews since the whole approach is very subjective and non-statistical . |
| 32 | ‘ Stereo ’ is another ; it was some time before the word had settled down to its present meaning , and American Columbia are not to be castigated for marking their 1953 seven-inch LPs with the word ( 40 ) . |
| 33 | There are only so many different varieties of coat colour for moggies , and if the family cat was a tabby , or a black cat with a white flash on its chest , then the owners are not to be blamed for thinking that their long-lost friend has finally found its way home . |
| 34 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 35 | Excessive and lustful kissing , lustful embraces , suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown . |
| 36 | Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) . |
| 37 | the affairs of the target company are not to be hindered for an unreasonable time |
| 38 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 39 | Many of these are not to our taste , but there 's no doubt that even those items that would look more at home in a flower arrangement have been designed and coloured with fishkeeping in mind . |
| 40 | The following examples are not to be practised in isolation — only in sentences which indicate the negative or positive : |
| 41 | In fact , there are few corners of the world where Madeirans are not to be found : from Alaska to Australia , from California to Macau . |
| 42 | And if accountants are not to be commercial , who is it who will regulate their fees , incomes and salaries ? |
| 43 | Technology is dedicated and therefore vast reductions in cost in the lifetime of a product are not to be expected . |
| 44 | A quarto is likely to need all of twelve inches , a folio correspondingly more , if you are not to be reduced to laying it on its side . |
| 45 | Outside these works , though , hobbits are not to be met with . |
| 46 | The feeling is growing that we should get our act together smartly if we are not to be left gongless at the end of a less deserving queue . |
| 47 | The method involves making important assumptions about the nature of the migrations and the rate of change in the style of the English pottery if potentially ‘ early ’ vessels are not to be confused with those of the following centuries . |
| 48 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 49 | Rewards are not to be confused with bribes . |
| 50 | Nylon bristles are not to be recommended because they are likely to create static electricity in the coat and may actually damage the hair over a period of time . |
| 51 | Wittgenstein 's account of the source of the illusion that thinking is a stream which must be flowing under the surface of the auxiliary activities of making trials and comparisons , if these are not to be mere mechanical procedures ( 107 ) , is particularly interesting . |
| 52 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 53 | If these spaces are not to be compared one to another , and no original research has been carried out , what exactly is the purpose of this well-prepared book ? |
| 54 | Indeed , on the eve of Brusilov 's offensive , General Conrad von Hotzendorff , the Austrian supreme commander , told a Swedish journalist : ‘ We are not to be conquered again . ’ |
| 55 | Alternating periods of flood and drought are not to the liking of any plant , certainly not to roses . |
| 56 | ( They are not to be confused with the GRU , whose function is military intelligence . ) |
| 57 | Publishers rarely , if ever , charge for personal things like Christmas cards which are not to be offered for sale |
| 58 | Some of these composers need every bit of Mr Jacobs 's energy if listeners are not to be put to sleep . |
| 59 | Even if such remarks are not to be taken literally , Craigbarnet was clearly living in poverty and was burdened with a ‘ numerous family ’ . |
| 60 | Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate . |