Example sentences of "[be] to become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His or her ambition should be to become a recognised professional in the field , to handle more and more prestigious assignments rather than to acquire the powers of a line executive . |
| 2 | I 've always got on well with adults , but it 's only now that I 'm starting to get on with my own generation , and I realise that I have to do that if I 'm to become a whole person . |
| 3 | The published accounts of these journeys and the plants found , 250 in Kent and 72 more in Hampstead , were the first records of the herborising expeditions which were to become a regular part of the Apprentices ' training in botany . |
| 4 | These trips to the United States were to become a regular event , part of his routine as it were , and there was a sense in which he was returning home . |
| 5 | With the installation of the new organ , the Headmaster took the opportunity to introduce monthly non-denominational services in the Hallam Hall , and these were to become a regular feature of School life for many years . |
| 6 | As a result , by the early 1900s , a nationalist undercurrent was developing led by a charismatic young man , Mustafa Kamil , and though there were strikes and demonstrations ( which were to become a regular feature of Egyptian political life ) , Britain remained as unmoved , aloof and arrogant as ever . |
| 7 | Although it was clear that Poland would need massive industrialisation if it were to become a modern European nation , it was hampered in its efforts at every level by the legacy of partition . |
| 8 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 9 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Egypt 's independence had been a unilateral declaration by Britain ; and the reservations imposed were to become a running sore in the relations between the two countries . |
| 11 | Yet if the GDR were to become a multi-party democracy , it would lose its identifying ideology and become a pallid shadow of the Federal Republic : less grossly consumerist , perhaps , but also less desirable . |
| 12 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 13 | If social psychology were to become a historical discipline , then it would make as little sense to conceive of pure and applied historical social psychology , as it is to talk of pure and applied history . |
| 14 | If the EC were to become a single market it would have a domestic market of 320 million consumers , making it the largest market in the world . |
| 15 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 16 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 17 | Citizenship is to become a cross-curricular subject in the national curriculum . |
| 18 | If your ultimate ambition is to become a faceless , top-hat-and-tailed number at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party , getting to shake the monarch 's glove and putting three meaningless letters after your name then you should worry . |
| 19 | The lower floor is to become a Regional Railways office and train crew depot , while the upper floor will be taken over by the Welsh Tourist Board . |
| 20 | After all , if this hobby is to become a regular habit , maybe bordering on obsession , then the flyer will have invested in good quality reels . |
| 21 | Fremont , California-based Video Seven Inc is to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of its principal technology provider and minority shareholder , graphics accelerator board manufacturer Spea Software AG , which will buy the remaining stock of Video Seven from Glenwood Capital ; terms were not disclosed but Glenwood will become a shareholder in Spea under the agreement . |
| 22 | A FORMER music and video shop in Alton High Street is to become a modern betting office . |
| 23 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 24 | If social psychology is to become a historical science , then this is the son of problem which can be expected to be posed . |
| 25 | Ifor Evans , writing a few issues later , goes much further : " if aesthetic criticism is to become a reputable study , as honest and sober as philology , it must develop a method and vocabulary as precise and exacting as those of the physical sciences " , so as to be able " to describe with an almost mathematical rigidity the content of a poetic creation or an aesthetic theory " . |
| 26 | The non-interventionist Edward Stanley , Foreign Secretary in his father 's Conservative government of 1866–68 , stated a fortnight after taking office that " if North Germany is to become a single great Power , I do not see that any English interest is in the least degree affected " . |
| 27 | However , there are no plans to upgrade track north of London to accept the Continental loading gauge , a development which many critics feel is essential if Britain is to become a full member of the European rail network . |
| 28 | The aim , even for the Falcons , is to become a qualified military freefall instructor . |
| 29 | Now at long last the city is to become a Ukrainian one , and a genuine capital . |
| 30 | The more frequently a response is paired with a particular stimulus , the more likely it is to become a permanent relationship or habit . |