Example sentences of "it [is] not to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , it 's not to be wondered at .
2 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 .
3 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 ?
4 If you 've never seen one before it 's not to be missed .
5 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 .
6 It 's not to me , Harry .
7 But it 's not to be confused with …
8 ‘ The camera is quite kind to me where it 's not to other people . ’
9 There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price .
10 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 .
11 It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it
12 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
13 It 's not to , it 's not to isolate gamma rays .
14 There 's and there 's a big sign on the water heater it 's not to be used !
15 No it 's not to me it 's not
16 it 's not to deep , it fits in .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 . ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 It is not to be imagined that logic assumes whites do not also welcome the political changes in South Africa .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Wonderful music , but in the theatre — well , I must say it is not to my taste .
27 If it is not to be a positively charged convex curve , the intermediate rods need to be trimmed to form a straight edge .
28 It is not to be confused with various autobiographies but those expecting warts to be exposed will be disappointed .
29 The argument made in this book is that it is not to all land-users .
30 Alum Pot is a fitting end to this chapter on Ingleborough , but it is not to be inferred that the words and photographs adequately describe the manifold attractions of this wonderful mountain ; literally they only touch the surface and do not probe the dark secrets beneath .
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