Example sentences of "[adj] he became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 2 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 3 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
| 4 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
| 5 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 6 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 7 | In 1879 he became a Derby town councillor and in 1886 was made a JP for the borough . |
| 8 | In 1697 he became a director of the bank and served continuously ( with statutory intervals ) down to his death . |
| 9 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 10 | In 1828 he became the partner of his friend and younger rival , James Muspratt [ q.v. ] , who had emigrated to Lancashire in 1822 , in building a Leblanc-process soda works on the St Helens canal . |
| 11 | In January 1660 he became a captain in the regiment ( formerly Fleetwood 's ) of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , and the connection continued after the Restoration , when Lord Ashley ( as he had become ) was chancellor of the Exchequer , and Warcup , among other financial concessions , was a farmer of the excise in Wiltshire and Dorset . |
| 12 | In 1924 he became a fellow of King 's College , Cambridge ( only the second non-Kingsman to do so ) , and in 1926 a university lecturer in mathematics , a post he held until his death . |
| 13 | In 1924 he became a commander of the Legion of Honour . |
| 14 | In 1725 he became a member of the committee of management of the Charitable Corporation . |
| 15 | In 1898 he became a diocesan lay reader . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hebrews 5.8–9 tells us that : ‘ Although he was a Son , he learned obedience through what he suffered ; and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him . ’ |
| 18 | In January 1648 he became a member of the committee of both kingdoms . |
| 19 | Lord Justice Higgins was appointed as a county court judge in 1971 and in 1975 he became a member of a special committee set up to review the Emergency Provisions Act . |
| 20 | In 1969 he became a battery commander in the 47th Light Regiment , RA , at Yeovil , though four months of this period were spent on an emergency tour with 4th Battery in Belfast . |
| 21 | In 1921 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society and in 1923 was elected president of the Town Planning Institute and appointed to the Fine Arts Commission . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Over the 1930s and 1940s he became the most popular biographer in Britain . |
| 24 | In 1853 he became a partner in Joseph Crosfield & Son ; and after the death of Morland and George 's move to London in 1875 , he became solely responsible for the firm . |
| 25 | In about 1935 lie came to Euston Road School when it was just about starting and in no time at all he became a really competent painter in that way . |
| 26 | In 1884 he became a founder member of the Art Workers ' Guild . |
| 27 | In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . |
| 28 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1922 he became the Labour candidate for the University of London constituency , but he died before the election . |