Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] not to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the limits of his moral perception were not to be enlarged . |
| 2 | I mean I , I rather suspect it was the , the former it was n't th the driving force was not to be the needs of the mass of the population , but the needs of the mass of the population could be used , could be harnessed to build the Red Army |
| 3 | But by the evening HQ 5 Corps and the Army commander personally had been instructed that force was not to be used . |
| 4 | The president was not to be deterred . |
| 5 | The inquest into the Greenwich defeat was not to be a debate about the future direction of socialism in multi-cultural inner-city areas ; it was to be an appeal to homophobia . |
| 6 | Gyggle was n't to be put off by this ; instead of retreating or retrenching he suggested even more radical measures . |
| 7 | The precocity displayed by Ypres and Ghent in securing a candidate favourable to their industrial future was not to be imitated in the rest of France in the twelfth century ; still , other rulers , particularly those of Champagne , learned from it of the profit to be derived from allying with the increasingly powerful mercantile or industrial classes . |
| 8 | Jonadab was not to be hurried and methodically finished changing into his working clothes before putting in an appearance . |
| 9 | Instructions had gone out from on high that the boat was not to be rocked , and Margaret Thatcher was as good as her word . |
| 10 | But John 's heyday was not to be long-lived . |
| 11 | While most of the cases which were decided under the heading of gross negligence would be decided the same way under reckless manslaughter , from cases such as Lamb , above , manslaughter by gross negligence may survive despite Lord Roskill 's statement in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R that the term was not to be used . |
| 12 | But the horse was not to be restrained : |
| 13 | The trading lobby were not to be fobbed off with talk like that . |
| 14 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 15 | For the non-combatant was not to be merely the quiet underwriter of his country 's military undertakings . |
| 16 | Shared-space was not to be part of the 30 km/h concept . |
| 17 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 18 | The term 's work was not to be seen as leading up to the audio tape . |
| 19 | But their choices remained either in the storeroom or in the window because her father had made it a rule that the window was n't to be cleared until the day before Christmas Eve . |
| 20 | Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay . |
| 21 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 22 | Lansdowne Road has seen some famous victories this year and the Dublin Sports & social Committee was not to be outdone as Lansdowne Football Club was the venue for its latest undertaking . |
| 23 | The large lady was not to be put off , however . |
| 24 | Yet this action ( 25 May 1810 ) , by creating a creole government , is rightly celebrated as the birthday of an independent Argentine Republic , although formal independence was not to be declared until 1816 . |
| 25 | In compliance with the licensing laws the children 's rehearsal was n't to be held until later in the afternoon . |
| 26 | ‘ On 27 June 1991 the matter came before Judge Lally in the Ontario court and he adjourned the case for a week , I believe because of shortage of time , and meanwhile ordered that the child was not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the Ontario court in the interim . |
| 27 | The order recites that an interim order had been made that the child was not to be removed from the Province of Ontario . ’ |
| 28 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 29 | Typical Catholicism was n't to be found in St Peter 's , or Chartres , but in some mean , low-roofed parish church , where hideous plaster saints simpered along the wall , and the bored congregation , pressed perspiration tight into the pews , rested their fat arses on the seats , rattled their beads , fumbled for their smallest change , and scolded their children . |
| 30 | The dread question was not to be asked after all . |