Example sentences of "[be] not [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |
| 2 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 3 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 4 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 5 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 6 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 7 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 8 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |