Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [was/were] to be found " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard .
2 The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days .
3 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 .
4 Bold , reckless , keen in business , not disinclined for a brush with the pirates that were to be found on many a coast as yet , making money fast , they used to have a general " rendezvous " in the bay for the purposes of trade and dissipation .
5 He fell over and clouted his head against one of the heavy silvered cast-iron radiators that were to be found throughout the school .
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