Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 2 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 3 | Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ? |
| 4 | Lina 's role was to persuade the Ashleys that journalists were not there to pry , but to promote . |
| 5 | He warned the jury that they were not there to judge anybody , but to decide how the unfortunate Mr Oliver had died , and if there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal proceedings against anybody . |
| 6 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 7 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 8 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 9 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 10 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 11 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 12 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 13 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |
| 14 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 15 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 16 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 17 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 18 | as if the jungle and the heat and the blasted " yellows " were not enough to endure in the godforsaken tropics ! |
| 19 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 20 | In the result , the proceeds from that sale were not enough to discharge the first mortgage , let alone the subsequent ones . |
| 21 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 22 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 23 | The former Ryder Cup man was not here to work on swings ; merely to pass on some of his knowledge on course management . |
| 24 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |
| 25 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 26 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 27 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 28 | Britain 's strategy was not just to block the Six , but to have something in place should they succeed in getting their common market off the ground . |
| 29 | The pool system was not just to protect journalists and share the work out fairly , but also to control and censor the media . |
| 30 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |