Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 2 | " Nevertheless , the year is coming rather near , " put in Vera , one of Amyas 's several maiden aunts , " and quite honestly I hope I 'm not here to see it . " |
| 3 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |
| 4 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 5 | That it should be worked out fairly is as important for the police as for the protesters since the police in their non-public order role , for example in the normal course of investigating and detecting crime , require the cooperation and help of people similar to those whose freedoms to protest they are not only to control but to control fairly . |