Example sentences of "but [adj] [be] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall sound quality is good , without the dulling and squashing side effects that some products can produce ; pumping can be provoked in the hard ratio mode by extreme settings , but that 's only to be expected . |
| 2 | A lot of what we 've discussed in this series implies that you need to buy other programs to get the best out of your system — de-fragmenters , disk compression programs and so forth , but that is n't to be the case , necessarily , quite soon . |
| 3 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 4 | But that was not to be . |
| 5 | But that was not to be . |
| 6 | I wish that all members of the Community had reserved a similar power not to join , but that was not to be . |
| 7 | But that was not to be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But that was only to be expected . |
| 10 | These collapse , shrivel and dry as though scorched — but this is not to be confused with frost scorch . |
| 11 | Speich said , ‘ But this is not to be fair . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that where a tenant has had to make substantial alterations the court may force the landlord to make a contribution , but this is not to be relied upon . |
| 13 | Leaving out the control variable will make the program run quicker , but this is not to be encouraged . |
| 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 | But United were n't to be denied , Mike Ford 's shot was deflected across the face of the goal and there was Andy Melville to poke the ball into the corner of the net , United to continue to come forward , but continued to waste chances that came their way . |