Example sentences of "was not [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 2 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 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 | It was not to last for long . |
| 5 | This era was not to last for long . |
| 6 | But her happiness was not to last for long . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | According to Budhoo , IMF employees ‘ manipulated ’ a key indicator of Trinidad and Tobago 's ability to compete and export ( the labour cost index ) to hammer home the point that massive devaluation was needed if the country was not to head for mounting economic chaos ; the true figure he says , was far more encouraging . |
| 9 | It was not to work for long . |
| 10 | He was not to blame for their deaths . |
| 11 | He 'd pulled out in front of Gooch 's speeding car but was told he was not to blame for what followed . |
| 12 | But in a statement to an inquest in Bishop Auckland yesterday , Jacob Blenkinsop , of Northam Close , Stainton Park , Middlesbrough , said truck driver Ian Burrige was not to blame for the accident near Sedgefield on March 5 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was n't to wait for him if she had anything else to do . |