Example sentences of "[pron] was not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 2 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 3 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 4 | I 'd like to say that I was not too sorry to see him go . |
| 5 | She was a friend and adviser for the family as they tried to negotiate a path through an education system which was not always easy to understand . |
| 6 | She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close . |
| 7 | She was not even able to read : though the family possessed an extensive library , Dona Marguerita had it kept locked and the key lodged with Padre Jorge , who was prepared to issue devotional books only , and that grudgingly . |
| 8 | Well , she was not exactly overjoyed to have him acting as her chauffeur , either ! |
| 9 | She was not yet ready to commit herself so far . |
| 10 | For she was not yet willing to admit defeat and retreat to England . |
| 11 | I could immediately guess why she was not too keen to stay . |
| 12 | Gazzer took a step backwards , disturbed to find that he felt threatened : she was not so easy to manage after all . |
| 13 | Again she considered that she may be falling in love with him but this time she was not so quick to dismiss it . |
| 14 | She was not really surprised to see Jenny and Matthew crossing it side by side , Jenny talking animatedly , looking up into Matthew 's face . |
| 15 | Her grasp of English was obviously limited , and she was not much inclined to stretch it further . |
| 16 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 17 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 18 | It was not even easy to remember exactly what she had said , so lightly had she said it , that had offended her sister . |
| 19 | It was not even necessary to remove hir underwear before Alix started yelling . |
| 20 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |
| 21 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 22 | The Industrial Tribunal held that it was not reasonably practicable to present the claim in time ( i.e. they would exercise their discretion to allow it in late ) . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , as their story does not follow the usual path of military organisation , it was not particularly surprising to find later commandos coming ashore with anti-tank mines strapped to their equipment . |
| 24 | However , Hezbollah , which maintained a stronghold in the suburbs of southern Beirut , reportedly informed the government that it was not yet ready to make a decision on the security plan . |
| 25 | It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine . |
| 26 | It was not too hot to sleep : in Coffin 's life it had never been too hot or too cold or too anything to find oblivion . |
| 27 | It was not too late to realise that space should be given in the programme for a proper consideration of the perception of winning in relation to the whole team of the assembly . |
| 28 | It was then she understood that it was not too late to stay . |
| 29 | Lily remembered that she had hoped even then that it was not too late to change … . |
| 30 | It was not too far to jump and I know every inch of the lake . |