Example sentences of "[conj] be to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 2 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 3 | Basically , therefore , the job consists of transferring male pollen from the anthers of the variety that is to be the male parent to the stigma of the variety that is to become the female or ‘ seed parent . |
| 4 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 5 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 6 | In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun . |
| 7 | On entering service with BR the loco wore the traditional two tone green livery that was to become the ‘ norm ’ on early BR diesel locos . |
| 8 | Since John wrote , Wrigley and Schofield 's calculation of the consumption — production ratio has pointed to this period before the industrial revolution as having been " very fortunate " in that the age structure meant a smaller dependency burden of non-working children than was to become the case in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 10 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |