Example sentences of "[adj] he become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 2 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |
| 3 | He was undermanager ( 1841 ) and manager ( 1844 ) at Monkwearmouth , then the deepest mine in Britain ; c .1845 he became a managing partner in Washington colliery , and sole owner of Unsworth . |
| 4 | In 1293 he became a regular assize justice but continued to act for private clients in the Common Bench until the court moved to York in 1298 . |
| 5 | In 1844 he became a regional committee member of the newly formed British Archaeological Association and began to conduct larger excavations , communicating his discoveries through the Association 's Journal . |
| 6 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 7 | In 1926 he became a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army , a commission he resigned in 1944 when his interest in spiritual matters had developed beyond the bounds of Salvationism . |
| 8 | Nizan stuck to his principles , but after 1939 he became a political refugee . |
| 9 | He remained a potent political force through his weekly column in The Star newspaper and during the mid- and late 1980s he became a formidable critic of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed . |