Sentence examples for which were not to from inspiring English sources

Then we joined on terms which were not to our liking but were the best we could get".

It was this powerful individualism that led De Beauvoir to her radical notion that women, too, had autonomous selves, which were not to be defined by others.

Poulantzas evolved a dual strategy for the Greek left in the 1970s: first, to encircle the state with social movements, which were not to be controlled by any party but allowed to become expressions of popular democracy.

There are numerous recipes for this soup - I even found one dating back to 1743, when it was made not with tomatoes (which were not to appear in Italian gastronomy for several decades), but with saffron.

At the same time, the War Cabinet provided for more intensive training for the full-time cadre of Militia units, which were not to exceed 25 percent of the unit's strength.

The use of simple descriptive Latin names (e.g. compactus, nanus, prostratus) for horticultural variants was accepted and so too were names in the local language – which were not to be translated and should preferably consist of one word and a maximum of three.

Which is not to be denied.

Which is not to minimise its problems.

Which is not to denigrate the everyday.

Which is not to say incomprehensible.

'Which is not to excuse it.