Example sentences of "to be and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 3 | So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning . |
| 4 | It is n't quite what it appears to be and success requires brain as well as brawn . |
| 5 | that 's the only link with Caldmore as it used to be and Caldmore as it is now |
| 6 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |