Example sentences of "on become [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to become chairman of Guildford juvenile court magistrates . |
| 2 | This miraculous work was achieved on one hand press by a single compositor , J.H. Mason , who went on to become head of the London School of Printing . |
| 3 | She had no doubt that her children were too important to be brought up by anyone else and , as others went on to become household names , she became a full-time mother , writing occasional children 's books as well as a storybook-guide to the handling of epilepsy based on experiences with her own son . |
| 4 | Our very own Oliver Gillie won a special award in the media category for the paper 's health page , which he edited before moving on to become deputy editor of The Independent Magazine , and the overall winner was James Erlichman , The Guardian 's consumer affairs correspondent . |
| 5 | Initially the chairman was Sir Edward Boyle , followed by the shadow Home Secretary , Peter Thorneycroft , when Boyle moved on to become deputy chairman of the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 6 | Professor Fletcher went on to become secretary of the Royal College of Physicians working party on atmosphere pollution , smoking and health , and the resultant report was a best-seller for the college and ultimately led to the founding of ASH . |
| 7 | DAVE HILL began his career as a contributor to the NME in 1981 , moving swiftly on to become music editor at London 's City Limits listings magazine . |
| 8 | Many of the local and regular skaters from this era went on to become house-hold names in the UK and International skate scene ; people such as Steve Douglas , Bod Boyle , Danny Webster , Sean Goff , Mark Abrook , Barry Abrook , Shane Rouse , Phil Burgoyne , Davross , Gary Lee , Don Brider , Rodga Harvey and many many others . |
| 9 | ‘ Windy ’ went on to become Headmaster of a School in Weymouth . |
| 10 | The blip in the graph occurs at a crucial stage of development in firms which until that point were among the fast growers , sharply reducing the number which move on to become medium and larger firms . |
| 11 | At the Chemical Society of London there were great debates about the status of atoms in 1867 and 1869 , with Professors at Oxford and at London Universities on opposite sides ; and at the same time in France some of the most distinguished chemists were sceptical of atoms , among them P. E. M. Berthelot , who went on to become Minister of Public Instruction in 1886 , having done distinguished work on synthesis and on calorimetry . |
| 12 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 13 | He was a quiet , modest man , easy going and uninhibited , with a loud infectious laugh , his tolerance and good humour enabling him to disagree strongly without giving or taking offence : as with his brother Michael ( later Baron Ramsey of Canterbury ) , whose ordination ( he went on to become archbishop of Canterbury ) Frank , as a militant atheist , regretted . |
| 14 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 15 | What 's striking is the number of us who have gone on to become foreman or engineers . ’ |
| 16 | From there he went on to become kadi of Edirne and then kadi of Istanbul . |
| 17 | Further along the right wall is a list of the Duomo Archbishops , a list that includes many men who went on to become Pope . |
| 18 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 19 | Thomas More went on to become Lord Chancellor of England and was executed for opposing the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn . |
| 20 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 21 | He went on to become anchor man for Grandstand for more than 20 years , No. 1 soccer commentator on Match Of The Day and the undisputed star of A Question of Sport . |
| 22 | Having trained with Ms Knight , McKinnon became her associate director at Perth and went on to become director of York Theatre Royal and Northern State , Newcastle . |
| 23 | His eldest son , John , wrote about St. Kilda ( MacGillivray , 1842 ) and William MacGillivray himself went on to become Professor of Natural History and Lecturer on Botany in Marischal College and University , Aberdeen . |
| 24 | His book Chemical Method was translated in 1855 by William Odling , a prominent figure at the Royal Institution who went on to become Professor of Chemistry at Oxford in the 1870s , as courses in science there became important . |