Example sentences of "not to be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a chance not to be missed for Italian politics to make a new start . |
| 2 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 3 | And that it would be imprudent in the extreme for allowance not to be made for that feature . |
| 4 | Police telephones were not to be used for private calls , said her mother . |
| 5 | Mark takes the view that if the UK is not to be considered for other than economic reasons , then that 's a matter for the committee and the Corporation to decide . |
| 6 | His potential for convincing , intense , even poetic realism was not to be conveyed for some time . |
| 7 | Not to be recommended for those having a plate . |
| 8 | ‘ Looking back on it now , it was a tour not to be forgotten for those of us who went on it . |
| 9 | If the vehicle is driven by an employee who is not to be summonsed for any offence , a statement should be requested as he should be dealt with as a witness . |
| 10 | One interpretation of the foregoing could be that the red jackets which should have been issued in 1820 were not to be issued for another three years , and the soldiers dressed in white clothing ( and shell jackets ) as much as possible . |
| 11 | Not to be sidetracked for any reason whatsoever . |
| 12 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |