Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 2 | She looked round for Leo , but he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | Still he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | He was nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | But he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 8 | The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered . |
| 9 | The doctor said he was n't to be excited . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
| 11 | But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture . |
| 12 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 13 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 14 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 15 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 16 | Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château . |
| 17 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | She was no longer angry , and he was not to be thrashed for spying on her and Tom Fish . |
| 19 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 20 | He was not to be summoned at short notice or dropped in on , but was to be treated as one would a man whose time was as valuable as one 's own . |
| 21 | In all , Hughes missed four clear chances but he was not to be denied and his 11th goal of the season came after 41 minutes . |
| 22 | So Asshe had given instructions that he was not to be let in . |
| 23 | Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way . |
| 24 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 25 | This sensitive , intelligent and finely-made man sometimes allowed her to sit in his room while he practised the piano , on the understanding that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 26 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 27 | He was not to be rushed . |
| 28 | The fact that Coleman was also said to have been ‘ terminated ’ further underlined the notion of his unreliability by suggesting that , even as a snitch , he was not to be believed . |
| 29 | He was not to be persuaded . |
| 30 | He was not to be swayed from duty . |