Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 2 | Gradually , in the novel , the friends of the Morgans grew up and ‘ acquired preferences which were not easily to be adapted to that sunny , untidy house … |
| 3 | Were not here to be politically correct , fair , justified etc … we re here as Leeds supporters chatting with like minded individuals . |
| 4 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 5 | The films were not only to be self-produced and self-distributed , but self-financed as well . |
| 6 | " Oh no , " said Mrs Owen , already aware that doctors and nurses were not there to be pestered . |
| 7 | Indirect Rulers ranked self-respect above all the other blessings they could bestow , wealth , health , and the conveniences of modern life paling by comparison , if they were not actually to be regarded as injurious . |
| 8 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 9 | Many clubs employed ‘ cravat-looseners ’ whose sole job was to make sure that those who had slid beneath the table through no fault of their own , were not about to be choked by their clothing . |
| 10 | It was always hard to get going , for if I did n't carry my own sins , and hence guilt , then my dad 's sins were always about to be draped around my neck like a dead albatross . |
| 11 | After 1870 they were once again to be undermined , not least by the fear of the growing movements of the working classes . |
| 12 | Altars were once more to be railed off at the east end of parish churches . |
| 13 | And in the more general upheaval of political beliefs which accompanied ‘ the strange death of liberal England ’ , influential judges were more often to be found towards the right of the spectrum of opinion . |
| 14 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
| 15 | Other signs of a relaxation of the extreme punctilio of earlier generations were now clearly to be seen . |
| 16 | It was n't as though pigs were n't around to be hunted , because at the same site were boar's-tooth amulets . |
| 17 | Her own susceptibilities were n't about to be put to the test . |
| 18 | Ceps , morels and other wild fungi were previously only to be found in specialist shops during the picking season ( from August to October ) . |
| 19 | These verderers were no longer to be officers of the Crown administering the forest law on its behalf . |
| 20 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 21 | Nineteenth-century legs were no longer to be clad in fancy hose , and by 1810 with most of even the skilled stockingers crowded into the plain branch , prices and wages began to tumble . |
| 22 | He had been trying , he said , to arm the government with " preventative , defensive , and repressive measures which were no longer to be found in the earlier legislation on censorship " . |
| 23 | Cancer cells , like meter readers without identity cards were evidently not to be trusted . |
| 24 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 25 | Once returned however , they were never again to be used as coronation regalia . |
| 26 | Running costs were therefore not to be cut by NETRHA and indeed they were to be substantially increased . |
| 27 | Or that London bobbies were too often to be found whispering sweet nothings to kitchen maids , and tucking into pastries in servants ' quarters on foggy nights , when they should have been out walking the beat . |
| 28 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |