Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My aim is not only to raise money but also to introduce the trust to non-members . |
| 2 | And my job is not actually to punish them but to reflect back to them what they 're doing . |
| 3 | Yeah , my objective was not actually to start a debate but to give you some indication of where we were going to go this afternoon . |
| 4 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 5 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 6 | I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us . |
| 7 | But their support was n't enough to inspire an Oxford victory … |
| 8 | Even her blood was not enough to entice him . |
| 9 | She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body . |
| 10 | The offering of gifts by the tribal chiefs and kings on behalf of their people was not only to demonstrate their obligation to the gods , but also to show the gods what the tribe needed from them ; usually greater wealth and greater victories over their enemies . |
| 11 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 12 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 13 | Or are they people that are in work but even their salaries are not enough to cope ? |
| 14 | Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic . |
| 15 | In the event their prestige was not enough to hold the seat . |
| 16 | Its purpose is not simply to help suffers to leave behind their negative destructive addictions but also to help them to become enthusiastic about positive aspects of a healthy physical , emotional and spiritual life . |
| 17 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |
| 18 | Their task is not simply to carry out a paperwork exercise . |
| 19 | Whereas , as we shall note , written language is , in general , used for primarily transactional purposes , it is possible to find written genres whose purpose is not primarily to inform but to maintain social relationships-'thank you' letters , love letters , games of consequences , etc . |
| 20 | ‘ [ It is our task ] to create a taxation system whose purpose is not just to re-distribute wealth , but also , and perhaps chiefly , to redistribute opportunity . ’ |
| 21 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 22 | The point of his advice is not just to authorise " medeled liyf " which the lord is anyhow pursuing : He can cut from one kind of state to the other with joy ; this is for him precisely how love is to be ordained . |
| 23 | As he saw it , his role was not necessarily to support the region but to be the earpiece and branch line for the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | Clara was glad that Walter Ash with his quips was not there to add to it . |
| 25 | Consequently , when , subsequent to the passage of the SGA 1893 , Chalmers wrote his various Digests , his purpose was not merely to annotate the Code with cases decided under it : " Our common law is rich in the exposition of principles , and these expositions lose none of their value now that the law is codified . |
| 26 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 27 | " Since our friends are n't here to push us , " said Bigwig , " we may as well make sure the place is n't crawling with stoats and owls before we go out . " |
| 28 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
| 29 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |