Example sentences of "[noun pl] were not [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own susceptibilities were n't about to be put to the test . |
| 2 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 3 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 4 | It was n't as though pigs were n't around to be hunted , because at the same site were boar's-tooth amulets . |
| 5 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 6 | " Oh no , " said Mrs Owen , already aware that doctors and nurses were not there to be pestered . |