Example sentences of "[noun] was to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 3 | Some assumed , or were given , names other than their own : Jacques d'Espailly was known as Forte-Epice ; La Hire had a cannon named after him , as did Guillaume de Flavy ; while , in the eighteenth century , La Hire was to become the named knave of hearts on French playing cards . |
| 4 | Combe was to become the most famous of British phrenologists . |
| 5 | In the 1820s , the brothers William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline began making snuff boxes in a factory in the village and their firm was to become the best-known name in the trade . |
| 6 | As a small clandestine organization the Britons Publishing Society was to become the main ideological source of an underworld whose principal themes were later to influence the racial nationalist tradition from the IFL through to the National Front . |
| 7 | The possibility of commercial suicide aside , the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album . |
| 8 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 9 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 10 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 11 | The author of Pygmalion and St Joan was to become the most famous playwright in the world . |
| 12 | The trip was to become the epitome of the affair : misconceived , well-meaning , disastrous , courageous , deceptive and surreal . |
| 13 | A frieze in relief along all four sides of the building was to become the accepted vehicle for figure-sculpture in classical Ionic , but in a different position from either of these : above the architrave , either below the dentils or replacing them ( fig. 166 ) , corresponding to the metopes and triglyphs in Doric . |
| 14 | The infant John was to become the disappointment of his father 's life . |