Example sentences of "she [was/were] not [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 2 | However , she was not prepared to be led by the nose to the altar . |
| 3 | She refused to give her name because in her job she was not supposed to be speaking to newspapers . |
| 4 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
| 5 | This morning she had been told that she was ill-mannered ; now it seemed she was not fit to be a lady ! |
| 6 | Her counsellor had said she was not fit to be at work . |