Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] not to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 2 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 3 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 4 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 5 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 6 | This decision , if it were not to be entirely arbitrary , would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy . |
| 7 | But it was not to be quite as he had hoped either . |
| 8 | But it was not to be a happy underwater sampling session . |
| 9 | The solution could have been an amicable one but it was not to be so . |
| 10 | But it was not to be . |
| 11 | But it was not to be . |
| 12 | Before they set off last year , Aileen hoped to raise the ambitious total of £30,000 needed to pay for two extra domiciliary workers at the Trust headquarters at Great Bookham — but it was not to be . |
| 13 | She had fervently hoped to be taken to the sergeant with the kindly expression and ruddy cheeks , or one of the men in the trailer , but it was not to be . |
| 14 | All week I prayed for a miracle , but it was not to be |
| 15 | I prayed for a miracle all week but it was not to be . ’ |
| 16 | But it was not to be like that . |
| 17 | But it was not to be . |
| 18 | But it was not to be . |
| 19 | But it was not to be . |
| 20 | But it was not to be . |
| 21 | Always optimistic , Anne felt sure that now that she would see him regularly at the dance , she would soon find out how he 268 really felt about her , but it was not to be . |
| 22 | But it was not to be for long . |
| 23 | But it was not to be despite the tremendous efforts of players like Paudi Lynch , Pat Claffey , Ian Delamere , Paul Neary , Justin Couch , Enda Moynihan , Dermot Desmond and the rest . |
| 24 | At one stage it looked as though McCallen might catch Dunlop as he closed the gap to three seconds but it was not to be and Dunlop opened up the gap again over the last two laps so that with victory in sight he had a cushion of seven seconds . |
| 25 | But it was not to be . |
| 26 | Mrs Frogatt 's two daughters were looking foreward to welcoming their new friends , but it was not to be : |
| 27 | But it was not to be . |
| 28 | He believed that the creatures inside the Grail Castle must not breed , for it was not to be thought of that the nightmare perpetuated by the sorcerers should be passed on . |
| 29 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |