Example sentences of "[noun sg] was to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The possibility of commercial suicide aside , the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album . |
| 5 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 6 | The trip was to become the epitome of the affair : misconceived , well-meaning , disastrous , courageous , deceptive and surreal . |
| 7 | 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 . |