Example sentences of "were not [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 2 | His family arranged his cremation , but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950 , the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde 's death . |
| 3 | Were not biking to Orpington were biking to Bromley . |
| 4 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 5 | Pressures for some " democratisation " of foreign policy and for weakening the dangerous grip on international relations of allegedly cynical and reactionary foreign offices were not confined to Britain . |
| 6 | Such diversification activities were not confined to Harwell . |
| 7 | Such moments were not confined to Atlantic crossings . |
| 8 | Asked why the shows were not coming to Washington D.C. , New York , Chicago or Los Angeles , Mr Hoving said : ‘ Oh , they 'll grumble something about scheduling or funding . |
| 9 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 10 | They were n't used to Grimma smiling . |
| 11 | I would say do n't give them away , if they were n't going to Emma . |
| 12 | ‘ He was just about to go away on business when Charles rang to tell him we were n't going to St Lucia after all . |
| 13 | And I told you not tell anyone and you were n't going to Mary ! |