Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 4 | I rubbed the noses of one or two under the frowning suspicious gaze of Ms Brown who was not pleased to be told that she should let me in whenever I asked , eh ? |
| 5 | It was not cool to be political . |
| 6 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 7 | It was not criminal to be impulsive ; only foolish . |
| 8 | These ‘ friendships ’ , however , tended to involve a third party , for as Bair stresses , it was not possible to be close to de Beauvoir without becoming involved with Sartre as well . |
| 9 | The Boards provided £5 million for research , which was not due to be completed until 1988 . |
| 10 | German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April . |
| 11 | Although a full inspection of the sites was not due to be conducted until June , the North Korean authorities allowed Blix and a team of inspectors to make an immediate " courtesy visit " in mid-May . |
| 12 | However , it was not necessary to be elusively positive about Hitler or the regime in order to escape the censor 's wrath , and it seems significant , therefore , that many letters home continued to emphasize trust in the Führer , often accompanied by outrightly Nazi sentiments . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that she was embarrassed by my family bereavement and felt it was not necessary to be part of it . |
| 14 | I was told it was not necessary to be big and hefty to take part as it was often fell runners who did well , wiry types with good strong legs . |
| 15 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 16 | Earlier we noted that , in the absence of cost changes , it was not necessary to be able to actually measure the abstract concept of surplus in order to form the conclusion that monopoly would bring about a reduction in it . |
| 17 | Contrariwise , one may be able to vote provided that one is in fact registered even though one was not entitled to be registered — the register , when published , is conclusive ( ibid , s.49 ) once notice of an election has been given , although it may be amended on specified grounds prior to that date ( ibid , s.11 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , she was not prepared to be led by the nose to the altar . |
| 20 | " After five days of bad food and bad stomach , the king was not inclined to be suspicious of someone who said that Prince Rainbow had sent him to make him better . |
| 21 | For further information , we are indebted to Vaughan Purvis who was not supposed to be in this festival at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She refused to give her name because in her job she was not supposed to be speaking to newspapers . |
| 24 | Blake was not surprised to be told by the Doctor that its origin and purpose remained unknown . |
| 25 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I was not able to be present at the actual service in January 1947 . |
| 27 | Alix began to think that perhaps , after all , it was not wrong to be happy . |
| 28 | He was not disposed to be easy with her . |
| 29 | ‘ I was not wont to be a married woman , and now a widowed woman . |
| 30 | And at a time when Furtwängler was out of fashion in Britain and America it was not unusual to be told that he rarely managed to play two successive bars in the same tempo . |