Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not afraid to come in after her . |
| 2 | Some of the children at school went out to do a traffic count recently and there was so much volume of traffic that the children were not able to keep up with th putting the in the to keep up with the volume of traffic . |
| 3 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
| 4 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 5 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 6 | It was all Harriet could do not to confront her , have the whole thing out , tell her that she was not prepared to put up with such behaviour any longer , that she might be a war widow with a child , but she was living in her mother 's house and should at least not take such care and help for granted . |
| 7 | Constance , whose confidence was growing daily , was not prepared to give in to Nicky 's wishes merely because of his sex . |
| 8 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 9 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 10 | For the first time Hitler was not able to get out from under the responsibility ; for the first time the critical rumours are aimed straight at him . |
| 11 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 12 | Being his father 's son , he was a man of strong principles and he was not afraid to speak up for them . |
| 13 | It was proved that night that it was not difficult to escape out of Berwick , however hard it might be to enter it . |