Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , my objective was not actually to start a debate but to give you some indication of where we were going to go this afternoon . |
| 2 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 3 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 4 | I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us . |
| 5 | Even her blood was not enough to entice him . |
| 6 | The offering of gifts by the tribal chiefs and kings on behalf of their people was not only to demonstrate their obligation to the gods , but also to show the gods what the tribe needed from them ; usually greater wealth and greater victories over their enemies . |
| 7 | Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic . |
| 8 | In the event their prestige was not enough to hold the seat . |
| 9 | As he saw it , his role was not necessarily to support the region but to be the earpiece and branch line for the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | Clara was glad that Walter Ash with his quips was not there to add to it . |
| 11 | Consequently , when , subsequent to the passage of the SGA 1893 , Chalmers wrote his various Digests , his purpose was not merely to annotate the Code with cases decided under it : " Our common law is rich in the exposition of principles , and these expositions lose none of their value now that the law is codified . |
| 12 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |