Example sentences of "were not [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates were not obliged to be Communist Party ( PCC ) members , but the vast majority of candidates were . |
| 2 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 3 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 4 | Those remarks , like his attack on Stewart and Gooch , were not due to be made public until next week . |
| 5 | As lithium salts were not amenable to being patented , they did not attract the attention of the drug industry : also they had a bad reputation for their toxic effects , and so Cade 's findings were neglected for a long time . |
| 6 | No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation . |
| 7 | You were not wont to be so loud and bold . ’ |
| 8 | They were not afraid to be concerned about the misery and unhappiness of men and women in society , and to ask whether and how positive happiness could be attained . |
| 9 | Others were not inclined to be as sensitive as Mara : ‘ I say ‘ Good for Di ’ , ’ opined the loudest at a table of women . |
| 10 | These doctors , unlike so many preregistration house officers , were not prepared to be walked over , and a campaign of industrial action — including the threat that future students might boycott the jobs at Southmead — led quickly to remedial action . |
| 11 | The most common offence was to break the curfew , aliens were not supposed to be out on the streets after eleven . |
| 12 | Felicitys were not supposed to be irresistible to men . |
| 13 | Needless to say this led to several incidents because the cattle came direct from farms and were not accustomed to being in pens or being handled by the general public . |
| 14 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 15 | Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever . |
| 16 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 17 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 18 | The doctor said there were not likely to be others , and he assured her it did n't matter , so she must be all his family . |
| 19 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 20 | It was a small , unpretentious , privately run hotel , with small rooms where conversations were not likely to be overheard . |
| 21 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |