Example sentences of "was not [adv] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money . |
| 2 | The grand plan was not only to achieve this stage of evolution in the shortest possible time , but also to eliminate Marxism , the opposing principle or force relative to this philosophy . |
| 3 | Even Muni 's name was not enough to sanction this material . |
| 4 | Because the $17,000 Dustin received for the picture was not enough to ensure any real security for himself , let alone Anne and the child , he was still not prepared to get married . |
| 5 | Simply to add water to a dry powder was not enough to satisfy this ritual urge . |
| 6 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 7 | But she was not about to reveal such precious dreams to him . |
| 8 | But it was soon evident that the government was not about to share any of its information or , indeed , to cooperate with Pan Am in any meaningful way . |