Example sentences of "he was not [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor eyesight had prevented Thomas from qualifying as a pilot ; but he was not content to be a backroom boy . |
| 2 | ‘ On the Doctors letting him Blood ’ maintains that the treatment is useless unless his doctor will use his lance ‘ to prick my poetick Vein ’ , yet he is incensed ‘ On the Doctors telling him , that ‘ till he left off making Verses , he was not fit to be discharg 'd ’ . |
| 3 | He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen . |
| 4 | Fleury , unaware of the Collector 's plans for a graduated retreat because he was not supposed to be in the Residency anyway , had dashed upstairs carrying the fifteen-barrelled pistol with which he was hoping to do battle from the upper storeys . |
| 5 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 6 | Mrs Erica Chalkley , 65 , said she thought Mr Ashdown had ‘ leadership qualities ’ but she was unhappy about his military background and was ‘ glad on the whole ’ that he was not likely to be the next Prime Minister . |
| 7 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision . |
| 8 | He was not disposed to be easy with her . |
| 9 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |