Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] not [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men are aware of their sexuality in a way they previously were n't , or were n't supposed to be . |
| 2 | Every time she had protested that she could ride alone and was not fit to be near anyone until she 'd had several baths he had laid his hand over her mouth and told her to hush . |
| 3 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 4 | But Rosie would n't be alone — she came here every year to run the chemist 's shop her father owned , and was n't likely to be without companionship for the evening . |
| 5 | I told her I needed to speak to Charlie , and was n't surprised to be left standing on the doorstep while she disappeared back into the house . |
| 6 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 7 | But was n't that to be expected ? |