Example sentences of "[adv prt] to become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery , which has been built in to become a small room , faces the gate as you enter under the arch . |
| 2 | He remained in this post until 1860 , when he was replaced by Marshal Vaillant and the Ministry of State was hived off to become a separate office . |
| 3 | I thought I would see what changes , if any , had been made to the career structure of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association ( GDBA ) — a career which I reluctantly gave up to become a full-time behaviour counsellor . |
| 4 | A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader . |
| 5 | I only ever wanted him to grow up to become a pro-ball player . |
| 6 | ‘ Little Emily ’ grew up to become a prolific author of didactic historical fiction , in which the hand of Providence administers justice with unflinching rectitude . |
| 7 | The ships in harbour had to leave because of a storm ; they sailed away bearing his new widow and her son , aged two , who grew up to become a big game hunter in central Africa . |
| 8 | The hidden costs of being in hospital — lost income , the cost of employing someone to look after the children , the cost of having someone to look after the home if your partner works , even your partner 's lost income — can soon add up to become a severe financial burden during an already difficult time . |
| 9 | The revival of the US as a great nation at the centre of world trade will also have an impact on the port of Liverpool , as it continues its fight back to become a key staging post on the transfer of goods across the Atlantic and around the globe . |
| 10 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 11 | Different kinds of reactions start , and the star swells out to become a Red Giant , as Betelgeux is today . |
| 12 | The channel tunnel is about to become a major part of the United Kingdom infrastructure . |
| 13 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 14 | A TELEVISION drive to persuade Britain 's seven million schoolkids to swap their lunch boxes for school dinners is about to become a real choker . |
| 15 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 16 | PETER REID is about to become a vital part of the new Manchester City regime by teaming up again with Howard Kendall . |
| 17 | It followed news of a £3 million deal with Nintendo distributors Bandai to market Budgie — supporting a Polish fortune-teller 's revelations that Fergie was about to become a wealthy woman . |
| 18 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 19 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 20 | And the critic Richard Findlater , who later went on to become a dear friend , said , ‘ How dare the English equivalent of a national theatre employ a schoolgirl , whom none of us has heard of , and who ca n't do it ? ’ |
| 21 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 22 | Pat told the Careers Officer : ‘ I 'm going on to become a professional footballer ’ . ’ |
| 23 | The case of Stefan Kiszko , wrongly jailed nfor 16 years — thanks , in part , to the eccentric defence mounted by his barrister , David Waddington , who went on to become a pro-hanging Tory Home Secretary . |
| 24 | KAREN Davison has got her skates on to become a sporting ambassador for Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | He studied law at the Moscow State University , and went on to become a full Communist Party member two years later , in nineteen fifty two . |
| 26 | Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same . |
| 27 | A group called Simplicity was launched in Oxford and went on to become a national success . |
| 28 | He went on to become a senior captain with an international airline . |
| 29 | Cherry went on to become a popular radio broadcaster and was sadly killed when leaving Broadcasting House during an air raid in 1940 . |
| 30 | He did , however , and went on to become a leading citizen . |