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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was to be found" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is often used to indicate something that was expected or intended to happen. Here is an example sentence: "According to the map, the treasure was to be found buried beneath the old oak tree."
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Peace was to be found in repudiating recrimination.
No such passion was to be found yesterday.
Unfortunately, no such statesman was to be found.
To me, it was about truth, wherever it was to be found.
None was to be found, as far as she could discover.
That symbolic language was to be found in the emerging mathematical discipline of algebra.
No evidence of a murder having been committed in the cabin was to be found.
The most obvious clue was to be found on images of Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon.
But not a single seven and seven-eighths cap was to be found.
But the best material was to be found at the magazine's party.
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