Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 2 | Furthermore , salaried men were not expected to have ‘ working wives ’ . |
| 3 | Of these , the Communications hardware and Computer segments were not considered to have comprised enough companies to justify . |
| 4 | Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances . |
| 5 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 6 | In the past the temptation to gallop across the hallowed Cowdray turf , which so many of them were not going to have the chance to play on , had been too much for the teams . |
| 7 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 8 | As we were still undergoing our basic training , we were not allowed to have a bar and nor would we be allowed to make a tour of the rest of the bars in the regiment , a ruling which Mike , Marius and myself were determined to do something about . |
| 9 | They er they just had their blacklists and er and er that was it , you you you were out , and you were n't going do er , you know , you were not allowed to have another job . |
| 10 | We were not allowed to have any ladders in our stockings or anything like that , we had to look very smart . |
| 11 | SAG chairman of the board , John Robertson said ‘ we were n't expecting to have to work so hard at promoting the technical specifications … and the price is having to back off on these projects . ’ |
| 12 | Because er Caroline once wanted one in a school and we were n't allowed to have it . |
| 13 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 14 | You know you were n't allowed to have it . ’ |
| 15 | Could I make the point , that I think the footings were already there , because they 'd started their double garage , which they then were n't allowed to have , and I think this is gon na stand on the footings . |
| 16 | They were forbidden to go into certain areas and they were n't allowed to have passports . |
| 17 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 18 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 19 | I do n't ever remember seeing , but there was we were n't allowed to have hair down , was you ? , |
| 20 | Oh yes or have it slide tied , you were n't allowed to have hair that 's not . |
| 21 | we , we were n't allowed to have that one , until we could pay for it outright . |
| 22 | it 's like , I mean , I mean when I used to work in a hospital you were n't allowed to have hair down and hole in the tights , they 're a load of toffee cows |
| 23 | They were n't going to have Jews using the front ones . |
| 24 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 25 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |
| 26 | Although the UK government had insisted that full diplomatic relations would only be resumed after the withdrawal of the death sentence on Rushdie and the release of the British businessman Roger Cooper , imprisoned in Iran without trial since December 1985 [ see p. 35544 ] , the latest move was not believed to have involved any formal undertaking on either of these issues by the Iranian government . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure . |
| 28 | The fact that you have been able to spend your whole time on the core of the question is itself some indication that the question was not intended to have any wider scope . |
| 29 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 30 | I would expect that the day he was diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia he was not advised to have a large meal followed by a cigar and a large amount of alcohol . |