Example sentences of "are not [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not here to be dumped on , Lucker . |
| 3 | If people have very little choice in matters of housing then the details of planning and the execution of policy become very important , and are not just to be left to the ‘ experts ’ . |
| 4 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 5 | Bonuses are not wholly to be deplored . |
| 6 | If the present division is regarded as desirable , the next step is to ensure that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence is sufficient to deal with cases of serious threats which are not enough to negative consent in rape . |
| 7 | Johnson also enjoyed catching sight of ancient texts in Aberdeen — a Hebrew manuscript ‘ of exquisite penmanship ’ , and ‘ a Latin translation of Aristotle 's Politicks by Leonardus Aretinus , written in the Roman character with nicety and beauty , which , as the art of printing has made them no longer necessary , are not now to be found ’ . |
| 8 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not there to be moral arbiters . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The problem is that they are not there to be promoted . ’ |
| 11 | But they are not all to be interpreted literally : in some the imagery is conventional , in others the self-abasement is ironic . |
| 12 | Now it would seem that they are not only to be denied an increase , but also to be faced with a reduction . |
| 13 | But they are not only to be seen on the street but within the mind 's eye itself : the mental set has changed in the post-1960 years of unprecedented exposure to visual imagery . |
| 14 | Canonical traits are not only to be found in words denoting living things . |
| 15 | They should be taught to recognise that the attitudes and behaviour of a character or narrator are not necessarily to be identified with the attitudes or beliefs of the author . |
| 16 | However , Davis and Latter ( 1989 ) concluded that such developments are not necessarily to the benefit of any other centre , and orderly removal of excess capacity should be seen as a normal component of London 's evolution . |
| 17 | If you listen sometimes to speeches made by the Royal Family now , they are not necessarily to my mind and er this is this difficulty of the sort of humanity and effemininity of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales who tried I think , both of them , to do a phenomenal amount of public work with different levels of success and different levels of coverage . |