Example sentences of "not [adj] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not pleasant to be shot at , and even the pleasure of being missed is spoilt by the mind 's habit of constructing alternative scenarios ; if the machine-gunner had been a bit quicker to react , or had led us with more skill , we would now be nothing but a heap of molten metal somewhere in the sea-grape . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not right to be joking about things like that , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The Government has had a Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | The Government has had a special Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks . |
| 5 | Those remarks , like his attack on Stewart and Gooch , were not due to be made public until next week . |
| 6 | Although a full inspection of the sites was not due to be conducted until June , the North Korean authorities allowed Blix and a team of inspectors to make an immediate " courtesy visit " in mid-May . |
| 7 | The Boards provided £5 million for research , which was not due to be completed until 1988 . |
| 8 | German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April . |
| 9 | All that unpopularity in the country or in the Commons manages to achieve is a revolt by a handful of predictable Tory rebels , a few careful speeches about the need to present policy better , and a vague anxiety about the results of an election not due to be held for years . |
| 10 | The next day , fresh chip butties and burgers in hand , we readied for the weekend 's big attraction : a copy of a New Generation episode , not due to be shown here for months . |
| 11 | Well done Joy erm a nice summary of a complex book and er there 's obviously a lot of things that will have to go of the erm lecture on it next week , so really this is not due to be talked about . |
| 12 | PAMELA : I will never , sir , enter into a subject that is not proper to be communicates every tittle of it to Mr. Belville and this must be my excuse for withdrawing . |
| 13 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 14 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 15 | However , ‘ not represented ’ must be understood to include ‘ not willing to be represented ’ , as well as ‘ not able to be represented ’ — a qualification without which the very essence of parliamentary representation itself is denied . |
| 16 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 17 | SCO NOT WILLING TO BE DRAWN ON SCHEDULE |
| 18 | It is obvious that we should have talks but I am not willing to be told that the talks can only take place at one location and I am not willing to accept an invitation to a slanging match . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 20 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 21 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 22 | The British people are not prepared to be conned by the bogus political asylum seeker . |
| 23 | However , she was not prepared to be led by the nose to the altar . |
| 24 | These doctors , unlike so many preregistration house officers , were not prepared to be walked over , and a campaign of industrial action — including the threat that future students might boycott the jobs at Southmead — led quickly to remedial action . |
| 25 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |
| 26 | He had to admit that it was not unpleasant to be taken in hand by someone so positive and avuncular . |
| 27 | One explained : ‘ I have to be careful about what I say publicly because it is just not acceptable to be seen adding to the depression . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is not easy to be disguised without clothes , ’ Sims said dryly . |
| 29 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 30 | Land expert at the Trust , Simon Potts says he welcomes the call for farmers to sell land at near agricultural prices , but admits there 's not much to be built , not much in it for the landowners themselves . |