Example sentences of "where it [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Imperial apartments , running water had been installed , but this was the only place where it was to be found and all the other rooms were still dependent on the ministrations of servants . |
| 2 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 3 | The completed upholstery was finished at the point where it was to be fixed in the coach . |
| 4 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 5 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |