Example sentences of "be not [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says yes I did , I am not supplying cigs to him . |
| 2 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 3 | In saying ‘ Do such-and-such ’ I am not giving expression to a belief . |
| 4 | When she and her husband Bob are not taking breaks to beauty spots such as their beloved Weymouth , Betty fills her time quilling . |
| 5 | ‘ But they are not producing programmes to the extent that we would like . |
| 6 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 7 | We are not given access to her private emotional struggles , but we are clear that she can not reject social values . |
| 8 | Disorganized capitalism remains capitalism , and they make it clear that they are not bidding farewell to the working class . |
| 9 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 10 | It will be said that we are not doing justice to the viewpoint of the opposing group . |
| 11 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 12 | How sensible she had been not to give way to any of his blandishments . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying . |
| 14 | er but that the that the they 're not paying attention to what 's coming out of it |
| 15 | So how do Trading Standards make sure that people are n't selling fireworks to those under age ? |
| 16 | His heirs and successors were not to lay claim to them . |
| 17 | In Germany , they were not allowed access to the main stations . |
| 18 | I mean , how do we know you were n't playing Stairway To Heaven , Smoke On The Water or Eruption ? |
| 19 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 20 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 21 | The LIFESPAN username supplied to PI is not permitted access to the listed module . |
| 22 | The given user is not associated with the Design Change and , therefore , is not permitted access to it . |
| 23 | In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text . |
| 24 | And a postmen 's union spokesman said already some first class mail is not making trains to London and elsewhere because of shortages among sorters . |
| 25 | But it was a very academic school , added Mr Essex , comparing Ayton favourably because its prime aim is not to get pupils to Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 26 | However , if you are charming and efficient you may actually get booked again by the venue : Similarly , all sorts of things often go wrong on stage , and the golden rule here is not to communicate mistakes to the audience . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I should warn you : Jean-Claude 's not writing music to Frontenac 's libretto . |
| 28 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 29 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said he was not throwing Ironside to the wolves at Molineux : ‘ Ironside is 28 , not 18 , and has played a lot of games . |
| 30 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said he was not throwing Ironside to the wolves at Molineux . |