Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big girl was just about to close a door and she opened a big smile and she said , Ah I just remembered my daddy collects stamps . |
| 2 | She filled a glass full of concentrated orange juice and was just about to take a sip when my nine-year-old son stopped her and said : ‘ Do n't drink it , it has n't been polluted yet . ’ |
| 3 | In no time , he 'd bought a second one for Liam in Milltown , and then a third in Warrenpoint and now Liam was just about to clinch a site in Newry . |
| 4 | And the Robert Maxwell empire was just about to launch a new magazine called World Development . |
| 5 | ‘ She was down before me , breakfasted and lookin' as though she was just off to complete a big business deal in the money centre of BA or wherever . |
| 6 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 7 | The point of [ 14b ] was not simply to provide a paraphrase : it is in no sense a literal representation ( interpretation ) of the utterance in [ 14a ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 10 | Intoxication is plainly outside the test : if the provocation was not enough to lead an ordinary sober person to do as D did , then the essence of D's defence is intoxication rather than provocation . |
| 11 | The loss of one vehicle and the leading tank 's offensive capability was not enough to cause a full scale withdrawal . |
| 12 | THE defending champions , Ajax , were last night knocked out of the UEFA Cup quarter- finals by French club Auxerre when their 1-0 home victory was not enough to overhaul a 4-2 first-leg deficit . |
| 13 | But this was not enough to secure a break , particularly as an armistice with Turkey was fairly quickly obtained . |
| 14 | Barnes turned the game with his penalties , but possession alone was not enough to break a Springbok side which defends with a pride born of historical arrogance . |
| 15 | That it was not enough to have a health care system that treated the symptoms , it had to tackle the root cause of the problem . |
| 16 | In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference . |
| 17 | In his autobiography Prokofiev admitted that he was ‘ not used to denying himself anything ’ , and he was not about to see a promising career inconvenienced by the Russian Revolution . |
| 18 | I was not about to make an instant bid for a terraced house with no immediate sex appeal . |
| 19 | Mara never talks about Diana and she was not about to make an exception yesterday . |
| 20 | If Scotland was ever again to have a free , strong ruler , there had to be consistent support from the nobles . |
| 21 | But at Tunis his own career was once again to take a new turn . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union was clearly about to play a major and perhaps decisive part in Korean affairs . |
| 23 | This was Tom Chalmers , who had already had a great influence on the development of broadcasting in Nigeria and was later also to have a major impact on the development of radio in Malawi , Zambia , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 24 | No , either he was up here to have a good look through one of the windows . |
| 25 | But their support was n't enough to inspire an Oxford victory … |
| 26 | ‘ as if it was n't enough to start a major race riot , you kill a blasted policeman . ’ |
| 27 | Vinny Samways pulled one back for Spurs in the sixty second minute , Paul Allen 's goal on eighty three minutes was n't enough to rescue a point . |
| 28 | Even the return of Hoddle , Ling and MacLaren was n't enough to revitalise a flagging Swindon side . |
| 29 | Kirk was n't about to look a gift horse not with Peterborough so desperate for points . |
| 30 | On this view , the only problem was how best to create an institutional framework which would bring the benefits of medical science more efficiently and equitably to the people of Britain . |