Example sentences of "be not [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course it is — what a fool I am not to get it till now … |
| 2 | You are not to show it to him ! ’ |
| 3 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
| 4 | No you 're not to throw them in the air . |
| 5 | They 're not to write it on letter heading cos it means it says it 's coming from the London . |
| 6 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 7 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 8 | They do n't achieve because they have to choose , and the only way to get women achieving in a sort of relaxed way is not to force them with the choice between occupation success and families . |
| 9 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 11 | It should be stressed that the aim in providing teachers with training in observational procedures is not to turn them into classroom researchers … |
| 12 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 13 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 14 | Free feed in this instance is not to attract them to our swim , for if we have chosen wisely we will already be fishing on the patrol route which they follow regardless of groundbait being present or not . |
| 15 | Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all . |
| 16 | To recognize a rule as a rule is not to recognize it in terms of approval or disapproval . |
| 17 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 18 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |
| 19 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |