Example sentences of "is [adv] not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps not to be wondered that when the clouds of war then appeared , those in high places turned a speculative eye on this , the greatest privately-owned railway organisation in the world , with facilities and space , equipped in a wide range , from precision tools to mighty hammers , forges , foundries , and a tradition of skilled craftsmanship grafted to modern organisational and administrative ability , for a possible source of production of the sinews of war . |
| 2 | There is otherwise a risk that the dog may become somewhat fearful of your hands , which is obviously not to be recommended . |
| 3 | The goddess is still not to be taken for granted . |
| 4 | A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to . |
| 5 | Following Lea ( 1984 ) , they suggest that true conceptual categories involve equivalence classes of stimuli that are not tied together by perceptual similarity , Mediated generalization is clearly not to be regarded , according to this view , as making the stimuli perceptually more similar . |
| 6 | Although the first instinct is always to take the puppy to your bedroom , this is really not to be recommended . |
| 7 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 8 | Dropping a pair of binoculars several feet on to hard ground is emphatically not to be recommended . |
| 9 | If , as both C.N.L. and the wider public now have every reason to suspect , these documents appear to point clearly towards corruption on the part of named police officers , it is surely not to be tolerated that those same officers should continue to mulct the press in damages whilst the courts disable their adversaries from an effective defence by withholding the documents from them . |
| 10 | The use of ‘ dramatic ’ means to ‘ enact ’ the presence and the meeting of Christ is surely not to be taken , at this stage , as a signal of ‘ art ’ , in the modern sense . |
| 11 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 12 | The C trumpet , though brilliant and flexible , lacks nobility of tone and its use is therefore not to be encouraged . |
| 13 | Its use is therefore not to be recommended . |
| 14 | A journey on one of the steam trains is certainly not to be missed ! |
| 15 | It is certainly not to be accounted for simply by the clerical abuses of the time . |
| 16 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 17 | Hoteliers constantly argue that Muzak encourages relaxation but it is certainly not to everyone 's taste . |
| 18 | If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions . |