Example sentences of "be not [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , effective S-turns are not easy to do , and they need to be practised if they are not to end up in dangerously steep turns or in bringing the final turn too close to the field . |
| 2 | It is the South-east that needs new settlements , if we are not to end up with a town-and-country muesli of interest to no one . |
| 3 | They represent , in Russell 's colourful phrase , the realm of " logical fictions " , and while the life as we know it obviously would be inconceivable without great many of such " fictions " ( they include , among other things , all the spatio-temporal objects of our everyday experience ) , there are a large number of others which are neither very useful nor indispensable and should be carefully guarded against if we are not to end up with an ontology crowded with all sorts of phoney entities . |
| 4 | You 're not to climb up there . |
| 5 | pet , you must not touch that , you 're not to climb up and get things off shelves , you come out of the cupboard ee |
| 6 | I 'm not to grow up an Irish yob . |
| 7 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |
| 8 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 9 | In view of the record of Conservative Governments in always putting up VAT and in view of the Prime Minister 's promises on other aspects of policy , how can he pretend that his intention is not to put up VAT ? |
| 10 | This is not to set up a system which once again asks women to do something painful and impossible , to juggle with all the expectations that come when we are working as wives and mothers and outside the home as well . |
| 11 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 12 | Your duty tonight is not to wash up , but to allow the Master to slaughter you on the black and white field — unless you play a game as wicked as Papa 's — in which case you may finish off what the Africans began on me ! ’ |
| 13 | If Britain is not to end up in a technological cul-de-sac , with a technical solution to managing nuclear waste confronted by massive political opposition , it must tackle a number of problems . |
| 14 | Management say Caldaire would need at least £3.7m if it is not to end up out of pocket . |
| 15 | A mundane pilgrimage , maybe , but the only kind of which I am capable , and one which satisfies those ‘ two thirsts that can not long be neglected if all our being is not to dry up : I mean loving and admiring ’ . |
| 16 | And the chicken is not to come up here again , is that understood ? |
| 17 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 18 | So the course which was widely adopted was not to sell up entirely but to grant leases of land wanted for development . |
| 19 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |
| 20 | Caldaire said it would needed at least £3.7m if it was not to end up out of pocket . |
| 21 | The company has said a buyer would have to come up with at least £8.5 million if Caldaire was not to end up out of pocket . |
| 22 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |