Example sentences of "be not to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes that you can consult are of great value , but much of the fundamental interpretation of your subjects must be based on an effective memory when notes are not to hand . |
| 2 | If materials are not to hand when they are needed , progress suffers and costs to the constructor increase . |
| 3 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 4 | With newly-growing insights , Harry now knows ‘ that my business is not to run away , but to pursue , not to avoid being found , but to seek ’ . |
| 5 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
| 6 | Their intention is not to drink , but to dance for hours on end . |
| 7 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 8 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 9 | ‘ Therefore my purpose in this book , ’ he writes , ‘ is not to state conclusions but , like a radio interviewer , to ask why and what and how , and thus to re-open a file that has perhaps been prematurely closed . ’ |
| 10 | The intention of this paper is not to blame , but to understand . |
| 11 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |
| 12 | Figure 6.2 ( b ) can be taken to represent the Earth and the Moon today , though it is not to scale and the tides have been greatly exaggerated . |
| 13 | expanded memory , and you can have up to twelve megabytes , so that 's er , twelve thousand K. This is not to scale , this is going to be much bigger than that . |
| 14 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 15 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |
| 16 | The important thing is not to count calories , but to recognise those foods which are fat-dense . |
| 17 | So that 's that 's the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while you 're writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what you 've written up . |
| 18 | This is not to essay any argument as to what the ultimate future of Northern Ireland should be . |
| 19 | Thus the role of the coach is not to hand out advice passively but to act as a partner and a catalyst . |
| 20 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 21 | The best remedy to all such difficulties is not to harbour grievances silently but to raise the problems as they arise and to deal with them before they get out of control . |
| 22 | This is not to limit faith , but to recognise that it is increasingly difficult to maintain a high figure based on small numbers . |
| 23 | In my view , however , the effect of section 38 ( a ) is not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively in the sense that under the Act he is deemed to have had title at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; the effect of section 38 ( a ) is to vest in the trustee , when adjudication occurs , title to property which is identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy . |
| 24 | He was not to waster them . |
| 25 | But even the most socialist of them shared the view , articulated by Brailsford before the war , that the first task of the pacifist was not to overthrow capitalism but to ‘ check the worst consequences of a capitalistic foreign policy , and , if possible , turn it to some partial good . ’ |
| 26 | The political system was not to blame , but the young people themselves who misunderstood the ‘ realities ’ of the Chinese situation . |
| 27 | Jessica had said , as they had dressed for dinner with her parents , that he would probably be mentioned , and Karen was not to corpse . |
| 28 | This must be why Parliament saw as necessary the duality of the parole system : without the advice and recommendation of a body capable of assessing the risk of early release the Secretary of State was not to act : but , having received such advice and recommendation , he was to authorise early release only if he himself was satisfied that it was in the public interest that he should . |
| 29 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 30 | The government was not to influence content , but the state and/or regulatory bodies and/or the law courts were to ensure that ‘ civilized values ’ , ‘ morality ’ and ‘ decency ’ were respected . |