Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only excluded from performing , the understudy was not even to be allowed to take part in the murder investigation . |
| 2 | ( It was not finally to be absorbed as the industry 's central marketing department until 1968 . ) |
| 3 | It was not yet to be . |
| 4 | By comparison , the British tradition had already been established and was not yet to be moved . |
| 5 | It was as if only she was not yet to be told which it was to be . |
| 6 | If he appears to have produced a static image of Celtic society , as if the Roman impact was not yet to be observed , he must have known what he was doing . |
| 7 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 8 | The plain fact was she had been terrified by her own reflection , and this was not lightly to be dismissed . |
| 9 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 10 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 11 | Andrew Andrews , a medical legal expert and legal adviser to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority , said it was not enough to be given legal powers and training . |
| 12 | But the interior meant less — though it was not always to be so — than the grounds , the lake , the woods . |
| 13 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 14 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 15 | But Blunset was n't anywhere to be seen . |
| 16 | It was n't really to be wondered at . |