Example sentences of "this was not to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not to be finished until 1954 because of the Second World War , and the need to build a new tunnel at Woodhead . |
| 2 | This was not to be , and it was not until 1982 , some time after his death , that a group of craftsmen ( including his sons , Aonghus and Alistair ) took over the building . |
| 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 | This was not to be . |
| 5 | That this was not to be was good news indeed . |
| 6 | But the Chief Warden had had instructions this was not to be an easy summer . |
| 7 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 8 | And this was not to be until eight years later — when I was 22 years of age . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | CF–DRD was retired from service in 1984 , but this was not to be the end of this particular Norseman 's fame . |
| 13 | Unfortunately this was not to be . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | He did advocate penal servitude as a punishment for certain offences , but this was not to be served in prison . ) |
| 16 | Don Cattabianchi 's wish was that when he died there should be a big party in the church hall , with singing and dancing and no dividing line down the middle of the floor , but unfortunately this was not to be . |
| 17 | Hopes were high for a pleasant summer 's day fishing , but unfortunately this was not to be : heavy wind and rain — and a stomach-churning eight foot swell — resulted in a lot of green faces and a fewer that expected number of fish being caught . |
| 18 | But this was not to be the case . |
| 19 | This was not to be a matter of mark-books and tests but a freely managed regular assessment which depended first on the subject-teacher but which took in the view of everyone who had dealings with each individual pupil . |
| 20 | This was not to be Iraq 's last word at this stage on the possibility of a break in the hostilities . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately this was not to be . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |