Example sentences of "[adv] be [not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the corpuscular theory these secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities arise from the arrangement , the ‘ texture ’ , of the solid , shaped , and mobile corpuscles which constitute gold , and so are not to be attributed to the corpuscles themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ On another day we might have had four or five tries in the second half , but it just was n't to be , ’ said London coach Tony Jorden . |
| 3 | To consider religion carefully is not to be dogmatic and exclusivist , but actually the opposite , for it allows an important area of experience — both communal and private — to be explored instead of being ignored or reinterpreted in terms inappropriate to it . |
| 4 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 5 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | To point this out is not to be ‘ negative ’ or ‘ anti-European ’ or ‘ Euro-sceptical ’ . |
| 7 | I mean , Helen Burn 's plea here is not to be to eager for retribution to come in this life , but trust to it erm |
| 8 | The contrabass clarinet in B flat or E flat is a splendid instrument , but again is not to be regarded as an orchestral possibility for any but the most abnormally large orchestras . |
| 9 | However , Christian symbols certainly were not to the taste of Elena . |
| 10 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |