Example sentences of "was not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 2 | And as scores of saffron-clad fans in the 6,000-strong crowd wended their way towards the exits , it seemed as if there was not even going to be a respectable attendance at the funeral ! |
| 3 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 4 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 5 | His nonconformity was not just limited to the roles he chose or to his moody persona but also to his sexuality . |
| 6 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 7 | It hinted at the indiscrimination of death , that it was not just confined to the sick or injured . |
| 8 | ‘ It was not well done to be caught without my bow , ’ Allen objected . |
| 9 | The argument of counsel to the contrary effect and , indeed , some of the judgments — e.g. the reference by Pollock C.B. , at p. 91 , to the plaintiff as a ‘ quasi-corporation ’ — seem to reflect a confusion of thought about identifying the company with its members that was not finally laid to rest until the decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v. Salomon and Co . |
| 10 | Data obtained in the 1969 Census ( to which I have had access but which , to my knowledge , remain unpublished ) suggest that only 15% of the population spoke a mother tongue which was not closely related to one of the seven African broadcast languages . |
| 11 | He chuckled inwardly , thinking that maybe the boy was not altogether lost to him . |
| 12 | Already the new world was not easily reduced to one thing . |
| 13 | He had shut himself within , and was not easily going to be drawn out again . |
| 14 | Like many students the world over , the young Reagan was not overly committed to academic work ; both at school and college his grades were mediocre and his principal preoccupations were sport and drama . |
| 15 | During the inter-war period , the quasi-autonomous model of administration ( the quango ) was not yet geared to any effective imposition of a programme of this kind upon the universities , or the schools of English within them . |
| 16 | But Clare was not yet accustomed to a life in which ice cream , sherry , and a telephone were luxuries . |
| 17 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 18 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 19 | It is important , however , that we keep accurate records , though it is not so important we make rigid rules that can preclude the recording of a well-authenticated fish simply because a rule was not strictly adhered to . |
| 20 | The task was not simply to come to terms with Wagner 's music drama , but to reconcile his theory of it with his actual practice . |
| 21 | Already wise to the ways of two of the most notoriously sharkish industries , TV and pop , Kylie was not however going to Hollywood with her eyes closed . |
| 22 | Mrs Beeson was not normally given to strong language ; most certainly not in a loud voice — and most certainly not in an Australian accent ! |
| 23 | Though modern empirical experimental science is one of the more obvious products of that movement , the Society was not narrowly restricted to science in any modern sense . |
| 24 | Mark you , Squirrell was not solely confined to these stylistic limitations . |
| 25 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 26 | Alix was not sufficiently numerate to be able to calculate the odds against such an apparently odd relationship , though she could not help but feel that its component , accidental parts were startlingly combined . |
| 27 | George knew the type locally , a pocket of fossils preserved among these border valleys , though this superlative specimen was not personally known to him . |
| 28 | The pattern of adhesion ( diffuse or localised ) was not obviously related to hydrophobicity , although only nine localised isolates were tested . |
| 29 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 30 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |