Example sentences of "not [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new approach , it seemed , was not to be made so publicly , not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met , and contended , and killed one another without malice . |
| 2 | These are not to be connected to the other compartments . |
| 3 | ‘ As I 'm no longer to live here I would also be pleased not to be troubled by the police . ’ |
| 4 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 5 | Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | But I defy anyone looking at any part of the earth 's history closely and with an open mind , not to be struck by the super-abundance and ubiquity of particular fossils . |
| 7 | Not to be missed on the central and right hand crags are : Tychodrome ( Severe ) , Crecerelle and Doctor Cynoque ( VS ) , Plaisir du Gourmet and Concerto No 3 en Sol Majeur ( E1 5b ) , Verdon ( E2 5b ) , Les Amants de la Deroute and Dimanche à la Campagne ( E2 5c ) , and Dimanche Inachevé ( E3 5c ) . |
| 8 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 9 | However the Bradford striker was not to be denied on the half hour . |
| 10 | However the Bradford striker was not to be denied on the half hour . |
| 11 | Violent and peaceful social interaction is not to be understood through the search for a thing called ‘ aggression ’ , but through the sensitive and detailed explication of the values and meanings that embody and shape behaviour in different social settings . |
| 12 | In 1973 the tide turned with a 5-to-4 majority ruling by the Supreme Court in Miller v California that obscenity , as narrowly defined , was not protected by the First Amendment , and that each state could set its own standard : ‘ People in different States vary in their tastes and attitudes , and this diversity is not to be strangled by the absolutism of imposed uniformity . ’ |
| 13 | ( 1890 , p. 214 ) The subject-object relation is not to be characterized as the subject 's attending to the content , or anything of the kind . |
| 14 | The vague reformism of the epoch was , in these circles , channelled into an even vaguer brand of aristocratic constitutionalism which revived the claims of the old ‘ rich men ’ ( ricos hombres ) of Castile ; grandees could stomach rule by career bureaucrats but the career of court favourite was an aristocratic preserve not to be exercised by the ‘ sausage maker ’ , Godoy . |
| 15 | If the value is not to be determined by the auditors , there has to be unanimous agreement of the shareholders . |
| 16 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 17 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 18 | In Kirchberg , small flower-decked open air cafes , are dotted about , and we defy anyone not to be tempted by the gateaux on offer . |
| 19 | In Tynan v. Balmerls ( 1966 ) forty pickets in a continuous circle around a factory ( which had the effect of sealing off the highway ) were held not to be legalized by the Act of 1906 because their action was a nuisance at common law and an unreasonable use of the highway . |
| 20 | It was a long game , and despite his dogged determination not to be shuffled to the sidelines Edward , naturally , was not privy to all the machinations . |
| 21 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 22 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 23 | Not to be warmed by the sun . |
| 24 | And that she was meant to reach Ramsey , not to be lost on the way . |
| 25 | Another key to Private Eye 's success , and one that was not to be lost on the underground , was its use of offset litho printing . |
| 26 | May I take a passage from the last section of the article : ‘ If the ethical nucleus of culturally specific mankind is not to be lost within the framework of media globalism we need to encourage a ‘ Self-critical Regionalism ’ based on the heterogeneity and plurality of gender , ethnic background and class ’ . |
| 27 | True , the local history researcher is more likely to be pursuing investigations through source materials provided by Anglo-Saxon charters , medieval rolls , maps , land grants , muster documents and the like , but the uses of heraldry are not to be despised in the processes of rounding out historical themes . |
| 28 | A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it . |
| 29 | On the facts the Court rejected this argument , but the operation of Article 36 ( 2 ) would allow a single dissentient not to be bound by the decision . |
| 30 | His undoubted personal success in the 1920s in Birmingham was not to be repeated in the 1930s , as fascism made less impact there than in the East End of London or the north-west . |