Example sentences of "[be] [adv] not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayek points to the fact that many social institutions which are essential to the successful pursuit of our aims are the result of customs , habits , and practices which are not the product of design or invention and which , although they govern thought and action , are often not brought to consciousness . |
| 2 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 3 | The Bishops were mostly not opposed to liberty of conscience for Dissenters , the wiser of whom opposed the Declaration , but considered that only Parliament could revoke the Test Acts , so that the Declaration was illegal . |
| 4 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 5 | This problem is certainly not restricted to mathematics and the program designer and teaching team should consider very carefully the various presentations they would like to have available . |
| 6 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |