Example sentences of "not [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were a lot of decisions made on the mainland — and she was not someone to be sat on . ’ |
| 2 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 3 | ‘ But , as I recollect it , I — or rather we — escorted you to your room that night , not you to ours . |
| 4 | Irving Layton is not one to be lost in a crowd . |
| 5 | The lower tiers have neat windows , but not one to each face of the octagon , while the upper tiers have windows in each face , beautiful windows with elegant marble columns . |
| 6 | The sergeant was not one to be hurried or flustered . |
| 7 | She would have liked to have made the truth plain — that the feeling , though not one to be taken too seriously , was mutual . |
| 8 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 9 | He had a key to the armoury , but not one to the ammunition safe . |
| 10 | Moreover , the vice of sodomy , which Anselm was especially harsh in denouncing in his conciliar decrees , was not one to which Henry 's court , unlike Rufus 's , was especially addicted . |
| 11 | In R. v. Merthyr Tydvil JJ. ( 1885 ) 14 Q.B.D. 584 , it was held that an objection made by a chief constable to an application for a licence to the court in their private room was not one to which the court could give effect . |
| 12 | Well , I 'm not one to soldier on with this kind of treatment . |
| 13 | True , Rupert had proposed the match , and sent envoys a full year previously to treat for Blanche 's hand , and the alliance was not one to be despised . |
| 14 | The issue of the strength of the Government 's commitment to the process is not one to be kept until 1996 or 1998 , but must be faced by the Government now — not with devices to mollify the rival factions in the Conservative party , but with a determination to promote the opportunities for , and the living and working standards of , the people of this country . |
| 15 | Not one to be left out , and to bring 1990 to a good end , here goes — on , I will be marrying my fiancee , at Carmarthen Registry Office . |
| 16 | Both the Conservative and Labour parties appeared to draw the conclusion that it was an experience to be avoided , not one to be encouraged . |
| 17 | now you see this is three inches to the mile and this is this is one to no that 's not one to a million , that 's ridiculous that is . |
| 18 | It 's not one to so many thousand , it 's just written nice and easy for you , as one centimetre to one kilometre . |
| 19 | The attendant fuss which comes with his being the most likely American to succeed this week is not something to which he takes readily . |
| 20 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 21 | This is not possible for everyone , and it is not something to be undertaken lightly , but it may be the only answer for some babies . |
| 22 | ‘ People generally believe in the efficacy of hospitals and the police and I would put the Church in that mould — not something to be revered or mystified . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not something to be rushed and we will not be in a position to make any announcement until towards the end of the week . ’ |
| 24 | Not something to be removed as quickly as possible so that all is decent again and the proper rituals of mourning can begin . |
| 25 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 26 | Marriage today is seen as a matter for the couples themselves and not something to be decided upon by members of some wider kinship grouping . |
| 27 | The fact that a book is necessary to know Jesus is not something to be regretted . |
| 28 | Despite the myriad perversions emblazoned across Vivienne Westwood 's clothes for ‘ Sex ’ , Punk Rock 's concerns were not private but public : the Self here was amplified , in songs like ‘ I Wan na Be Me ’ , into a desperate assertion of individuality in a Burroughsian world of collapsing values and dehumanized sex , and the body was not something to be celebrated but — in songs like ‘ Bodies ’ , with its excoriation , ‘ I 'm not an animal ! ’ — objectified through fear . |
| 29 | He concluded by saying that if you believe in God you have to find other ways to convince people that He exists , and that was not something to be discussed in this lesson . |
| 30 | The new law recognises that both parents continue to be responsible for their children even when they are separated or divorced : children are not something to be ‘ won or lost ’ in divorce proceedings . |