Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , you will need to be particularly careful with your diet if you are not to suffer from fatigue . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 3 | To eliminate these defects we must remove the reference to inference and tighten up the relation specified between the false beliefs and the true justified ones which are not to count as knowledge . |
| 4 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 5 | If these predictions were not to agree with observation , we could conclude that the universe is not in the no-boundary state . |
| 6 | A new German willingness to compromise on farm subsidies , however , emerged on Oct. 9 , and by Oct. 14 the GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel was able to tell the IMF/World Bank meeting in Bangkok that there were real prospects of concluding the Uruguay Round by end-year , a deadline he had presented as crucial if the whole process were not to end in failure . |
| 7 | Direct English military intervention was now necessary if the duchy were not to collapse into chaos . |
| 8 | His ambitions were n't to do with television , however , we discovered . |
| 9 | specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch |
| 10 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 11 | Exhibitions are not strictly speaking sales settings because the prime objective is not to sell from display stands . |
| 12 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 13 | for the supply of goods or services and the supplier 's main business is not to engage in investment business |
| 14 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 15 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 16 | The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre . |
| 17 | His advice to the group , therefore , is not to spin off Baby Blues to focus on specific product areas , but rather to split business into small and large accounts . |
| 18 | The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption . |
| 19 | If self-examination is not to deteriorate into introspection or be ignored we need wise guides with whom to articulate the inner movement of our spirits and the outer movement of our lives . |
| 20 | In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments . |
| 21 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 22 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 23 | As Derrida ( 1978b , p. 234 ) noted , Artaudian theatre was not to refer to life or represent life but instead to be life . |
| 24 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |
| 25 | It was n't to do with change . ’ |
| 26 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |