Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [was/were] not to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1970 , the Equal Pay Act made it unlawful to pay women less than men for doing the same or similar work ( although this was not to be implemented until 1975 ) . |
| 2 | This was how the visual comedy of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was conceived , although this was not to be the opening episode of the series ; Michael Mills felt the couple needed to be introduced in another story , which saw Frank go for a job as a door-to-door salesman — one of many jobs — and bungle the practice session in his own inimitable way . |
| 3 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 4 | That this was not to be was good news indeed . |
| 5 | From the Aix-la-Chapelle peace of 1748 onwards every major international agreement involving the states of western and central Europe was in French ; and from the peace settlement of 1763 the hitherto frequent provision that this was not to be taken as a precedent was dropped . |
| 6 | He felt fanatically encouraged that this was n't to be his horse . |
| 7 | And this was not to be until eight years later — when I was 22 years of age . |
| 8 | This would include the opportunity of subsidised housing and , if this were not to be made available immediately , then additional general welfare or family benefits would be made available to pay for accommodation as necessary . |
| 9 | But that was not to be . |
| 10 | But that was not to be . |
| 11 | I wish that all members of the Community had reserved a similar power not to join , but that was not to be . |
| 12 | But that was not to be . |
| 13 | He is looking up and out to sea in a southerly direction , and looking and listening desperately for sight or sound of Middleton — but that was not to be . |
| 14 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 15 | It was reasonable to assume that , this time around he would stun the outside world with a similar manoeuvre , but this was not to be . |
| 16 | CF–DRD was retired from service in 1984 , but this was not to be the end of this particular Norseman 's fame . |
| 17 | He did advocate penal servitude as a punishment for certain offences , but this was not to be served in prison . ) |
| 18 | But this was not to be the case . |
| 19 | But this was not to be , and the new structure made district-country relationships even more crucial to the smooth working of the planning system . |
| 20 | But this was not to be Coleraine 's day and in injury time striker McWalter , who had earlier been cautioned for dissent , was sent off following a challenge on keeper Devine . |
| 21 | He had hoped that the pope himself would have excommunicated Henry at the same time as his chief accomplice ; but since this was not to be , Anselm consulted Archbishop Hugh and decided to go ahead with his own excommunication . |