Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
| 2 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … . |
| 5 | She nurtured an artistic , creative ego and vision according to the ready models of what it was to be a ‘ Great Artist ’ . |