Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] was to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father travelled to Nairobi by way of Mega , Moyale , Marsabit , Laisamis and Nyeri , all places with which I was to be familiar some fifty-five years later . |
| 2 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 3 | General Hodge thus had the first of the many tempestuous scenes in which he was to be involved with Rhee over the next two years . |
| 4 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 5 | Oh yes they told us it was to be underground oil storage . |