Example sentences of "he [be] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 2 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
| 3 | He were n't engaged to her , she 's a married woman . |
| 4 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 5 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 6 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 7 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 8 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 9 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 10 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 11 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 12 | However , he is not presumed to be financially accountable for such decisions . |
| 13 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 14 | He is not attracted to men in the least , however . |
| 15 | He is not conforming to their pattern by ‘ miraculous accident ’ . |
| 16 | I suppose so , Rajiv , I suppose so , but he is not to come to the briefing . |
| 17 | New Level , a white and black son of Murlens Slippy , took part in last year 's Wimbledon event when only a pup , but Johnston obviously feels he is not suited to the tight London circuit . |
| 18 | ’ Well' , said Macmillan , ‘ he is not going to be my headmaster . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He is not going to be sacked over Christmas , and in the New Year the preparations for the Spring Budget would be disrupted by a change at the helm . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope he is not going to be taller than me . |
| 21 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 22 | ‘ He is not going to Belgium ? ’ |
| 23 | And he is not going to be too keen on you continuing with your career , either , ’ she 'd added warningly . |
| 24 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 25 | ‘ I think maybe the reason he is n't speaking to me , ’ Ellie ventured , ‘ is something you might have said to him . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well I do n't believe you did and he is n't going to be able to prove it . ’ |
| 27 | He is n't used to this , you know . ’ |
| 28 | But he is n't responding to treatment . ’ |
| 29 | He 's not apologizing to me , Zen realized . |
| 30 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |