Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porter and Paisley were frequently to be found leading such marches and various Ministers for Home Affairs found themselves being denounced by loyalists at Orange rallies . |
| 2 | Her mother went to a nearby shop and when she returned 15 minutes later , Kathleen was nowhere to be found . |
| 3 | Rafiq was nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 5 | Half time came and the fans artound me were a bit pissed off because a ) Leeds were n't actually playing all that well and b ) Rocky was nowhere to be seen ( ironic when you consider it was his picture on the front of the program along with an interview where he said Wilko came to him & said ‘ you 're in the team , just go do it ’ — or something like that- ) . |
| 6 | Yugoslavia and possibly Albania were also to be invited to the meeting , although neither was a COMECON member . |
| 7 | The wetlands and wastes of England were soon to be loud with their tumults . |
| 8 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 9 | Stepping into his path , Harry enquired as innocently as he could if Mr Cornelius was anywhere to be found . |
| 10 | The new museum at the Bank of England was soon to be opened by the Queen . |
| 11 | Prior to the 1970s UDC was frequently to be found in large card indexes in special libraries and sometimes in abstracting and indexing tools . |
| 12 | Nasser was also to be compared to Mohamed Ali , with his efforts to modernise Egypt and industrialise his economy , Ahmed Arabi , leading an earlier nationalist uprising , and Zaghlul , al zaim , with his popularity among the Arab masses . |
| 13 | An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany . |
| 14 | ERCO were soon to be kept busy producing war materials , and it was not until August 1945 that production of the Ercoupe resumed . |
| 15 | Côte 304 and the Mort Homme were both to be assaulted simultaneously . |
| 16 | Euclid was nowhere to be seen . |
| 17 | The objective of the operation was to arrest Mr with the proviso that it was to be done with the safety of the public to be paramount and that the safety of the police officers and Mr was also to be considered . |
| 18 | When war did come on Bank Holiday Saturday — 4th August — young Kenny was nowhere to be seen , but John was in his same position , shouting loudly to the crowd as usual . |
| 19 | Shiksas were to promise an escape from Jewish America , as the promised land of Israel was eventually to be evoked as doing for Henry Zuckerman . |
| 20 | The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club . |
| 21 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 22 | Wickrithe was only two hours away by car , and every so often they drove down to spend an afternoon with Gran ; but usually Adam was nowhere to be seen . |
| 23 | Timothy Gedge was nowhere to be seen . |
| 24 | Tice 's Meadow at nearby Badshot Lea was later to be subject to plans for housing development ( see 30 years ago from out files ) . |
| 25 | Promotion at Maidstone was never to be his ; instead they 'd sent him back to Ramsgate , scene of his early success in capturing the notorious smuggler Rum-Bubber Bill . |
| 26 | Liz was nowhere to be seen . |
| 27 | Though Egypt was later to be ruled for centuries by a variety of outsiders , the sense of an Egyptian identity and the grandeur of the past were never entirely forgotten . |
| 28 | Contributions to federal funds for the development of Kosovo and for disaster relief in Serbia proper and Vojvodina were also to be withheld . |
| 29 | When Cornelius returned from the gents , Tuppe was nowhere to be seen . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , Mrs McMahon was nowhere to be found . |