Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a very simple message here : if I were you Mr Chairman , I would not want to be a Labour priority . |
| 2 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 3 | I will not add any further details , since this is not intended to be a technical article , and in any case loco fans will know the details very well already . |
| 4 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 5 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 6 | Democracy was evidently not intended to be a dead letter within the BDDA , but participation was difficult to achieve . |
| 7 | The points set out below are not intended to be a full explanation of the intricacies of the acquisition of premises and their use as a catering enterprise ; they are designed to illustrate some of the legal issues involved . |
| 8 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 9 | Torture does not need to be a male preserve , she says . |
| 10 | Moreover , the belief would not need to be a reasonable one . |
| 11 | And so there does not need to be a separate provision made for numbers of concealed households . |
| 12 | You do not need to be a Christian , or any sort of a believer in established religion , to want to live your life by the simple principles of goodness that are symbolised by the baby born in Bethlehem almost 2,000 years ago . |
| 13 | Here the producer does not need to be a registered carrier . |
| 14 | The cost of online services is not considered to be a critical factor in their use . |
| 15 | LIBRA You are not considered to be a selfish person by nature . |
| 16 | The possibility that this approach might appear to poor parents as a punishment for their poverty was not considered to be a significant part of the equation . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion . |
| 18 | And it 's not designed to be a public meeting for anybody that come along and gives support and help would be more than welcome . |
| 19 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 20 | This would not appear to be a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses , but rather an indication of these affable dudes getting their priorities right . |
| 21 | Note that there does not appear to be a standard configuration for servo motor connections and on some older motors the supply connections may have to be reversed . |
| 22 | This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity . |
| 23 | Vologsky did not appear to be a strong individual — yet he wanted to go into space , so he could not be a physical coward . |
| 24 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 25 | Although the cuckoo is a bigger bird than the reed warbler or any other of its regular hosts , its eggs are unusually small in proportion to its size , with the result that there does not appear to be a great discrepancy between them . |
| 26 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal readily allowed new evidence to be admitted and held that since the risk to jobs did not appear to be a major factor in the dispute , it seemed unlikely that the union would be able to bring itself within the definition of a trade dispute and so the injunction should be granted . |
| 28 | As the fact of remarriage does not appear to be a relevant consideration ( see 2.25 above ) , remarriage alone would not warrant such a separate assessment . |
| 29 | In the case of the EC member countries during the transition period to monetary union , exchange rate changes as a means of correcting current account deficits would not appear to be a desirable response . |
| 30 | It is worth recording also that urban contraction among the extra-mural areas does not appear to be a significant feature before the mid fourth century . |