Example sentences of "[coord] was not [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The ECSC was not , and was not intended to be , that type of institution .
2 Mr Upham , 45 , was at Labour 's campaign headquarters when police broke the news to him and was not expected to be at last night 's count .
3 We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October .
4 Clarence House said she was in ‘ very little distress ’ and was not thought to be in any danger , and her admission was purely precautionary .
5 Use in a field setting would certainly be desirable , but was not felt to be realistic at this stage because of the difficulties posed by the light , wind , rain etc .
6 The sharpening of the generalization gradient around a stimulus was in some way a consequence of the processes responsible for the formation of the S-R links but was not thought to be itself associative in nature .
7 A spokeswoman said Courtney had suffered ‘ generalised bruising ’ in the crash but was not thought to be in any danger .
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