Example sentences of "[adj] was not [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | up until then I still was n't too worried , but I think then it started to dawn on me that this was n't going to be much fun and I felt a bit scared . |
| 2 | This was n't going to be a party . |
| 3 | This was not meant to be any kind of supranational authority , but under the aegis of cooperation some conformity of legislation was achieved as well as some joint initiatives , one of the first being the establishment of Scandinavian Air Lines ( SAS ) in August 1946 . |
| 4 | Some hostility or distress on the part of the dementia sufferers to some of the memory testing or depression questions , and to the performance tests , had been anticipated ; but on the whole this was not found to be the case . |
| 5 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion . |
| 7 | In North Yorkshire , Orkney and Wester Ross ( predominantly part-time ) this was not thought to be so important . |
| 8 | This was not thought to be hyperfluorescence of the discs by our ophthalmological colleagues . |
| 9 | This was not going to be at all easy . |
| 10 | This was not going to be another dull Sunday afternoon . |
| 11 | Twice they were denied penalties for handball , one in each half , and when Colin Johnson hit the upright 16 minutes from time , it looked more and more obvious that this was not going to be their day . |
| 12 | America realised this was not going to be an easy war to conclude . |
| 13 | ‘ That was not felt to be the most suitable way of proceeding in this matter , ’ he says , sounding like a police spokesman for the first time . |
| 14 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 15 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 16 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I hope that was n't meant to be facetious , Bodie . ’ |
| 18 | It was up to her to try and work out a plan of escape , but without expert help that was n't going to be easy . |
| 19 | Er eh in er in Lanarkshire and Motherwell , and er at that time , being a young lad no more between er f er fourteen and twenty , I realized then that was n't going to be a life for me . |