Example sentences of "it be not to " in BNC.

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1 Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight
2 ‘ I wish it were not to be lost to you . ’
3 This decision , if it were not to be entirely arbitrary , would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy .
4 ‘ Well , it 's not to be wondered at .
5 The neck is bowed out of shape already , which , in truth , could happen to any bass , but it 's not to be expected from an instrument with virtually zero miles on the clock , and these initial impressions are important to anyone considering an investment .
6 It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ?
7 If you 've never seen one before it 's not to be missed .
8 Now this last one here is called Living the Prayer and it 's like the other quite a few of the others , erm but it 's for you , it 's not for not for us it 's not to be shared .
9 It 's not to me , Harry .
10 But it 's not to be confused with …
11 ‘ The camera is quite kind to me where it 's not to other people . ’
12 There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price .
13 Whether they go on late at night , or , hair cut the next morning , it 's not , it 's not to the wall , but er , this would appear to cut right across the board .
14 It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it
15 Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off
16 It 's not to , it 's not to isolate gamma rays .
17 There 's and there 's a big sign on the water heater it 's not to be used !
18 No it 's not to me it 's not
19 it 's not to deep , it fits in .
20 We should n't forget either though that we already have a Social Chapter from the ni nineteen eighty seven Act , it 's not to be sniffed at , it 's given us the directive on the protection of pregnant women at work .
21 This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things .
22 Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s .
23 Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’
24 So with humanism more generally and more radically : it is not to be imitated , not modified , not simply borrowed from or differently applied ; rather , its appropriation and transformation is conditional upon its negation , the using of it destructively against itself .
25 I have also made a very rich soup from smoked salmon pieces , but be very cautious about your fish stock if it is not to be spoiled by excessive salt .
26 It is not to be imagined that logic assumes whites do not also welcome the political changes in South Africa .
27 Before the ark disappears from the narrative for the time being ( it does not play a major role again until its triumphal entry into Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 , though it does feature in another battle with the Philistines in 1 Samuel 14 ) , it leaves behind one more reminder that it is not to be trifled with .
28 But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles .
29 Wonderful music , but in the theatre — well , I must say it is not to my taste .
30 If it is not to be a positively charged convex curve , the intermediate rods need to be trimmed to form a straight edge .
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