Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [was/were] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fell over and clouted his head against one of the heavy silvered cast-iron radiators that were to be found throughout the school . |
| 2 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 3 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 4 | To furnish the interior authentically , the owner sought out period items — panelled doors , chimney pieces , etc — from local buildings that were to be demolished and installed them in appropriate positions . |
| 5 | Trains of animals , each carrying 5 or 6 hundredweight , crossed the wilder stretches of the country or plodded along the narrow paved causeways that were to be found on both sides of the Pennines and as far south as Derbyshire . |