Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also to be reckoned with , I have no fears for her . ’ |
| 2 | At such times a child is required to have a very strong grip on the nature of the ‘ game ’ if she is not to be deceived — or the teacher wisely keeps coming out of role in order to establish the difference for the child . |
| 3 | Commenting on Lord Castlehaven 's case , he stated : ‘ Tho in marriage she hath given up her body to her husband , she is not to be by him prostituted to another . ’ |
| 4 | Shall we just say , she is not to be encouraged . ’ |
| 5 | She needs help in the house , for a start , and you will inform her she is not to be acting like a servant . |
| 6 | From the cleaners to the executive she sees that everyone has an important part to play , no one is more committed than she is both to the University and her pharmacological research . |
| 7 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 8 | She is back to grande dame mode having proved herself , as John MacGrath put it , ‘ an actress who can do anything ’ . |
| 9 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 10 | To read We is constantly to hive to rethink the issue . |
| 11 | I feel the improvement we have seen in him is down to that . ’ |
| 12 | It is rather to be traced to the survival of feudal notions of lordship . |
| 13 | It is however to oil production that India is looking . |
| 14 | The situation where such clauses are most likely to be reasonable is one where prior negotiations have been complex , with many oral discussions and lots of paper work passing between the parties , so that it is equally to the advantage of both parties to create certainty by describing all of their rights and liabilities in one defined set of documents and excluding all extraneous issues . |
| 15 | you 're , you 're not saying that it , it , it , it is simply to be struck down without reference to any under lying |
| 16 | Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 17 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 19 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 20 | So with humanism more generally and more radically : it is not to be imitated , not modified , not simply borrowed from or differently applied ; rather , its appropriation and transformation is conditional upon its negation , the using of it destructively against itself . |
| 21 | I have also made a very rich soup from smoked salmon pieces , but be very cautious about your fish stock if it is not to be spoiled by excessive salt . |
| 22 | It is not to be imagined that logic assumes whites do not also welcome the political changes in South Africa . |
| 23 | Before the ark disappears from the narrative for the time being ( it does not play a major role again until its triumphal entry into Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 , though it does feature in another battle with the Philistines in 1 Samuel 14 ) , it leaves behind one more reminder that it is not to be trifled with . |
| 24 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |
| 25 | Wonderful music , but in the theatre — well , I must say it is not to my taste . |
| 26 | If it is not to be a positively charged convex curve , the intermediate rods need to be trimmed to form a straight edge . |
| 27 | It is not to be confused with various autobiographies but those expecting warts to be exposed will be disappointed . |
| 28 | The argument made in this book is that it is not to all land-users . |
| 29 | Alum Pot is a fitting end to this chapter on Ingleborough , but it is not to be inferred that the words and photographs adequately describe the manifold attractions of this wonderful mountain ; literally they only touch the surface and do not probe the dark secrets beneath . |
| 30 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |