Example sentences of "it was not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 2 | It was n't to do with change . ’ |
| 3 | It was n't to do with the women , they still resembled their ancestors well enough . |
| 4 | The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat . |
| 5 | If it was n't to blow up into a first-class row , she 'd have to bargain . |
| 6 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 7 | And I assure you it was n't to wipe your nose , it was to bring home any surplus cakes , that were left on the table . |
| 8 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So why , ’ she fired hotly , ‘ if it was n't to prove how devastatingly attractive to women you are , have you come here ? ’ |
| 10 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 11 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 12 | It was n't to marry Troy , it was to break off my relationship with him . |
| 13 | It was n't to get rich . |
| 14 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 15 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 16 | However , it was not to last . |
| 17 | Whatever may have prompted Benjamin and Elizabeth to pay this visit to Walworth — a chance of staying with some of the Parkes family , perhaps ? — it was not to last long . |
| 18 | It was not to last . |
| 19 | It was not to last for long . |
| 20 | It was not to last . |
| 21 | He had known " the void " himself and he knew , also , what it was not to love life . |
| 22 | Cole continues : That explanation is significant as much for its excusatory tone as for its substance ; and the excuse is of the Pioneers , decision to establish a production arm as a separate entity from the consumer society , a decision pointing production for consumer co-operatives along a road to the industrial co-operative form of organisation , along a road it was not to take . |
| 23 | But when Li Yuan finally turned to him it was not to take the halter from him . |
| 24 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 25 | So far , no one has explained satisfactorily why the US needed plutonium from Britain if it was not to make weapons . |
| 26 | It was not to have a long future , although Mary summoned it late in 1553 to announce her proposed marriage to Philip of Castile . |
| 27 | It was not to work for long . |
| 28 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
| 29 | MICHAEL Fallon remains much the most favoured subject for our limerick competition , as in this pithy effort from Robert Friend of Cowshill up't top of Weardale : Mr Junior Minister Fallon , Dispensed unctuousness by the gallon , It was not to win votes , This ‘ soft soap ’ in quotes , But for care of his hair at the salon . |
| 30 | Caldaire said it would needed at least £3.7m if it was not to end up out of pocket . |