Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syl 's mad little meannesses were not to be mentioned . |
| 2 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 3 | Foreign merchants were still to be permitted to enter the country , but Russian subjects were not to be allowed to leave and Russians living abroad were summoned home . |
| 4 | If the risks were not to great Dr. Spackman would go again . |
| 5 | It was an unwritten rule in the department that teaching sessions were not to be interrupted by phone calls , especially not private ones . |
| 6 | The dicta were not to be followed . |
| 7 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 8 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 9 | It was held that although the ingredients of undue influence by the husband were established the transactions were not to the manifest disadvantage of the wife and so , for that reason , should not be set aside . |
| 10 | Forest dwellers were not to be compelled to attend the swanimotes , nor those who lived outside the forest to attend the Forest Eyre , unless they were accused of an offence , or were sureties for someone else . |
| 11 | Though appointed by the member governments , the commissioners were not to be representatives of national interests . |
| 12 | This is the fundamental explanation of the continuous growth of population and its full effects were not to be felt in some countries until the 1930s . |
| 13 | At Christmas , Easter and Pentecost private chapels were not to be used for services ; their priests had to attend the bishop in his cathedral city , where the leading citizens had also to be present . |
| 14 | The sunglasses were not to be blamed . |
| 15 | Although the right to strike had been established , some of the judges were not to be so easily defeated . |
| 16 | The events of 1972 finally persuaded the leaders of organized labour ( and the great mass of trade union members ) that the judges were not to be trusted . |
| 17 | But his expectations were not to be fulfilled . |
| 18 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 19 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 20 | It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination . |
| 21 | This , of course , entirely alters the position from last Thursday ( when Gen McNarney told us categorically that his orders were that American troops were not to be used in the Yugoslav affair . ) ! " |
| 22 | If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion , then a tactical retreat was necessary . |
| 23 | Unhappily , the suppression of the greed and lust of evolution , innate in all individuals was not to be easily set aside . |
| 24 | Unlike many of those who followed him and profited from pirated editions of his works , Russell was not a quack and his treatments were not to be taken lightly , the firm physical and mental regimen he prescribed being not far from the modern practices of hydropathic establishments or the health clubs beloved of overweight executives . |
| 25 | Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon . |
| 26 | However , the three DHSS manuals were not to be a permanent part of the system so only one copy of each was to be supplied per bureau . |
| 27 | There was unemployment going about and the man that had a certain job at making certain things were n't to keen to show the apprentice what to do or give them the recipes . |
| 28 | Thus Saint-Pierre specified that existing frontiers were not to be changed in any way , and that no exchanges of territory were to take place or treaties between States to be made except with the consent of the federation which he wished to create . |
| 29 | Police telephones were not to be used for private calls , said her mother . |
| 30 | It was also announced that the number of conciliar periti was not to be increased — a decision not strictly adhered to . |