Example sentences of "it was not [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd be surprised if it was n't applied to her rump in the very near future . |
| 2 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't meant to be mad . |
| 4 | No , not at all , it was n't meant to be humiliating . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't meant to be , Martin . |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't meant to be like this . ’ |
| 7 | It happened , but it … it was n't meant to ! ’ |
| 8 | It was n't meant to be a cycling holiday and we did n't take any bikes with us , but Peter and Judy had a bike apiece for us to borrow . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's on the front line , ’ he said and it was n't meant to be enigmatic . |
| 10 | It was n't committed to its God and was n't therefore committed to his way of doing things . |
| 11 | At least it was n't known to , to very many people at that time . |
| 12 | It was n't suggested to Mr when he gave evidence that there was another man at the flat that night , I am told that if it had been his answer would have been an unequivocal no . |
| 13 | It was n't submitted to the Prime Minister like this ? |
| 14 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 15 | The High Court has upheld earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of the appellant 's receipt of the Special Commissioner 's statement of the case ( p 101 ) . |
| 16 | The High Court upheld in Petch v Gurney ; Gurney v Petch [ 1992 ] STI 943 earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of its receipt by the appellant . |
| 17 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 18 | She had no advice about it ; she did not read it ; it was not explained to her . |
| 19 | Contrary to what was stated on the form , it was not explained to Miss T. ‘ that it may be necessary to give a blood transfusion so as to prevent injury to my health , or even to preserve my life , ’ nor was the form read or its contents explained to her . |
| 20 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 21 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 22 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 23 | This magnificent object was found by a peat-digger in dismantled condition , the embossed plates being stacked in the bottom , a sign that it was not intended to be recovered but was deposited as an offering . |
| 24 | It was neither quiet nor unobtrusive , since it was not intended to be . |
| 25 | It was a personal letter addressed to his family , and like any personal letter it was not intended to be read by outsiders . |
| 26 | There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 28 | from the first it was apparent that it was not destined to be the faultless pageant which the stewards and controllers of the Kha-Khan 's household had both intended and arranged . |
| 29 | A patent , once granted , can be revoked if it is subsequently shown to fail to meet the requirements for patentability ; for example , that it was not novel on the priority date or does not have an inventive step , or if it was not granted to the person entitled to it . |
| 30 | It was not felt to be a good idea to mention the word ‘ grovel ’ in the presence of the England captain , especially as he had scored only 38 runs in five innings . |