Example sentences of "he was [adv] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was most often to be found in that jazz Mecca , Dobell 's Record Shop in Tower Street , where he was happy to reminisce about earlier times and to discuss who played what on the records from his heyday . |
| 2 | Despite Harry 's obvious attraction for most of the unattached girls in the room , it was in Cora-Beth 's company he was most often to be seen . |
| 3 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 4 | He was very soon to be forced to face the fact that things had moved on since 1939 . |
| 5 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 6 | Certainly he was never again to be as actively interested in the company as he was in the late 1940s . |
| 7 | Cagney 's class credentials were as impeccable as those of Bickford and Beery but he was never really to be a worker ; he was a city man and it was the pace , wit , style , and electricity of the city that Cagney now seized on as his hallmark . |
| 8 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |