Example sentences of "they [am/are] not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 2 | Since it seems they are not to be permitted to cut student numbers , they are attempting to increase income . |
| 3 | Although all are good single scullers , they are not to Olympic singles standard , but combined they looked yesterday to have good potential . |
| 4 | The belemnoids disappear from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous , but some of the group gave rise to living squid-like animals , and so they are not to be regarded as extinct in the same , final way as the ammonoids . |
| 5 | any numerical measures need a good deal of explanation and background information if they are not to be misleading ; and |
| 6 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 7 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 8 | ( They are not to be confused with the GRU , whose function is military intelligence . ) |
| 9 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 10 | Above all , they are not to be used when the train is in motion . |
| 11 | They are not to be reduced to mere puppets responding to influence from below . |
| 12 | They are not to be brought here unless the court first grants leave for the proceedings to be served on them abroad . |
| 13 | They are not to be married until Easter . |
| 14 | They are not to be looked at in isolation and followed to the letter , but if you 're not sure about style , they will give you some useful ideas . |
| 15 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 16 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 17 | However they are not to everyone 's tastes . |
| 18 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 19 | so that men from a very early age learn that women are , are not important creatures , that they 're not to be respected or erm understood certainly , and that they can be erm , beaten and abused and raped ! |
| 20 | They 're not to me because you can have them so long while I think oh not even in the fridge am I keeping this any longer , you know . |
| 21 | got it dried in no time at all , three sixes , but they 're not to erm |