Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 Chairman of the bench Lawrie Wild told vociferous protesters : ‘ We are not here to hear your objections , we are here to look at the site . ’
32 We are not here to have a good time . ’
33 So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch .
34 Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British .
35 The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame .
36 Moreover , we showed that indomethacin inhibited chemiluminescence elicited by stimulation of a suspension of neutrophils by FMLP , a system in which oxygen free radicals are not though to derive from the cyclo-oxygenase reaction .
37 Or are they people that are in work but even their salaries are not enough to cope ?
38 Retirement benefits are not enough to live on , so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support .
39 The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it .
40 Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse .
41 Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief .
42 From a commercial point of view , there are not enough to go round .
43 When there are not enough to go round ?
44 as if massive trauma and often great suffering are not enough to face , those who are informed that they are infected have also to deal with social stigma ( unlike many other diseases ) .
45 These few , SAG claims , are not enough to keep it running .
46 ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury .
47 She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home .
48 You can always fall back on good old rice and tea if the aesthetic qualities of the food are not enough to overcome your apprehension .
49 Therefore , you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract .
50 Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons .
51 I am in my 30s and married , but I am beginning to think the young men are not always to blame .
52 They are not there to criticise you , unless you force the criticism on them .
53 In other words , according to the philosophy of the head teacher , the teachers are not there to teach at all , but merely to supervise the children as they try to learn by themselves .
54 This pattern of occasional rewards ( something we all experience in daily life ) will help your child to maintain a pattern of behaviour even when you are not there to give encouragement to him .
55 But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things .
56 They are not there to help us avoid heartache or hurt — that 's not possible for real , alive , relating human beings .
57 From the pupils ' perspective they are not there to accept passively any offensive action on the part of the teachers merely because they are pupils .
58 The counsellors are not there to tell any young person what to do though if they are asked for practical advice they will give it .
59 The Defence Ministry said last night : ‘ They are not there to fight a full-scale war .
60 We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it .
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