Example sentences of "be [adv] to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTRESSES are about to become the queens of fashion advertising . |
| 2 | He thinks we are about to become the victims of a gigantic racket . |
| 3 | It will be observed that in Lee v. Butler the goods were not to become the buyer 's property until he had paid all the money . |
| 4 | By 1100 , the Avon had been diverted to power mills that were later to become the property of the Benedictine Monastery . |
| 5 | Between 1907 and 1911 he gave lectures which were ultimately to become the renowned Cours Linguistique Générale . |
| 6 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 7 | Among them was Baroness Perry , director of London 's South Bank Polytechnic , which is shortly to become the University of the South Bank . |
| 8 | From the Atlantic to the Urals , European football is about to become the biggest common market of all . |
| 9 | However , for one rural Irish town , the war is about to become the supporting act because Madam macAdam has arrived and she and her troupe of travelling players are stuck without a drop of petrol to be had . |
| 10 | Rod is about to become the latest victim of the slump in exotic cars . ’ |
| 11 | A recently proposed reconstruction of the Procession Fresco from the Knossos Labyrinth ( Hägg and Marinatos 1987 ) shows one of the leaders of the procession presenting a fringed garment , presumably the ritual overskirt , to the priestess who is about to become the goddess . |
| 12 | It must be conceded that the process had for its ‘ desired end ’ , the production of a being capable of experiencing what was eventually to become the enjoyment of life . |
| 13 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 14 | This was eventually to become the Victoria Dock . |
| 15 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 16 | He personally favoured Perth as a national capital , but it was unhappily to become the scene of his assassination . |
| 17 | The outbreak of war with England gave him his great chance and on 7 December 1775 he was commissioned lieutenant in what was soon to become the US Navy . |
| 18 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 19 | And he let the others in the cast know it , including that young actress , Sheila Hancock , who was soon to become the major star she now is . |
| 20 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |
| 21 | Frank Jacques was appointed from a large and well-qualified field of candidates ; one was later to become the General Secretary of the National Association of the WEA and another the chief Education Officer of a large county LEA . |
| 22 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 23 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 24 | The chairman at the time , Graham Leonard , was later to become the Bishop of London . |
| 25 | She was later to become the council 's vice-chairman . |
| 26 | William Penn , who founded Pennsylvania , was baptised at All Hallows , and John Quincy Adams married there in 1797 ; he was later to become the sixth president of the U.S.A. |
| 27 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 28 | KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail . |
| 29 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 30 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |