Example sentences of "were [not/n't] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination . |
| 2 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 3 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 4 | During the propaganda war that was waged between Sandys and the Services , the Air Staff were not to be outdone by the Admiralty . |
| 5 | So the field centre and nature trail were not to be . |
| 6 | The bishop of Pittsburg officially informed his priests during Holy Week of 1987 that women were not to be included in this ceremony . |
| 7 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |
| 8 | The arguments were not to be put in an insulting or irritating way , but calmly and with great moderation . |
| 9 | It was greatly taken amiss that they were not to be seen in the bombed vicinities . |
| 10 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 11 | Forest dwellers were not to be compelled to attend the swanimotes , nor those who lived outside the forest to attend the Forest Eyre , unless they were accused of an offence , or were sureties for someone else . |
| 12 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 13 | The deer were not to be fenced out of enclosures in the forest with ‘ unreasonable hedges and ditches ’ , unless ‘ the greater part of the enclosure be sown with corn ’ . |
| 14 | If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion , then a tactical retreat was necessary . |
| 15 | Eventually he tied it down and sat muttering about it being typical behaviour of suitcases and that they were not to be trusted . |
| 16 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 17 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 18 | The results were not to be entirely bad , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 19 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 20 | They were not to be contemplated . |
| 21 | This last speciality may reflect the much earlier skills of the Franks , the Frankish swords were of such good quality that the Emperor Charlemagne issued an edict that they were not to be exported . |
| 22 | Sir William ) Clarke , a solicitor , on condition they were not to be shown to anyone without the consent of himself and the syndicate . |
| 23 | However , the three DHSS manuals were not to be a permanent part of the system so only one copy of each was to be supplied per bureau . |
| 24 | This final scene of the novel leaves the reader free to believe , if he so wishes , that Pip and Estella will eventually marry , but it seems clear that CD 's intention was that we should understand that Pip 's renewed hopes were not to be fulfilled . |
| 25 | However , it was made clear that the assessments were not to be age-related . |
| 26 | Refugees were seen as deserving sympathy and help , but they were not to be pampered . |
| 27 | The trading lobby were not to be fobbed off with talk like that . |
| 28 | Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon . |
| 29 | The beliefs of the time were not to be easily undermined : as traffic grew the conventional wisdom was that roads should be widened to accommodate it . |
| 30 | They were not to be in two minds . |