Example sentences of "was not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 2 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 3 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 4 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 5 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 6 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 7 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 8 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 9 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 10 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 11 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 12 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 13 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 14 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |
| 15 | He pointed out that , unlike the South Western Board , he was not asking for any subsidy . |
| 16 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 17 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 18 | She retired quickly after her friend into the kitchen , overcome by a sense of invaded privacy ; a garden , to her , was not meant for such intimacies . |
| 19 | The white queen rolled under the table and was not found for several weeks . |
| 20 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 21 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |
| 22 | And it was n't earmarked for any specific items ? |
| 23 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 24 | I was n't asked for any more information . |
| 25 | ‘ If he were tired , ’ said Miss Fielding , ‘ he would put me in the driving seat — except that my part was n't written for that to happen . |
| 26 | The Bull & Gate surely was n't built for this sort of punishment . |
| 27 | I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble . |
| 28 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 29 | ‘ She was n't born for most of it , ’ I interrupted , putting an arm round her and drawing her away . |
| 30 | It occurred to him that he was n't equipped for such a life , and the edginess sharpened to resentment . |