Example sentences of "she [was/were] not [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that perhaps her agnosticism was a help in this respect , because , while she respected the faith of religious people and found religious ideas fascinating , she was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed . |
| 2 | She was not destined to be a great painter but she had the confidence and luck to be a successful one . |
| 3 | She was not constructed to be attractive . |
| 4 | For once she was not going to be browbeaten . |
| 5 | Eva Burrows had found her " shining person " and she was not going to be deflected from following Him . |
| 6 | She was not going to be fooled by their silly voices and accents . |
| 7 | She was not going to be one of a group . |
| 8 | Caroline felt her flush deepening , but she was not going to be the only one under attack here . |
| 9 | Vitor might be her weak spot , but she was not going to be weak . |
| 10 | Fabia put the phone down having promised that she would telephone again to let her mother know if she was not going to be back in Hawk Lacey by next Wednesday . |
| 11 | She was not attempting to be provocative . |