Example sentences of "be [adv] to become the " in BNC.

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1 By 1100 , the Avon had been diverted to power mills that were later to become the property of the Benedictine Monastery .
2 Between 1907 and 1911 he gave lectures which were ultimately to become the renowned Cours Linguistique Générale .
3 Among them was Baroness Perry , director of London 's South Bank Polytechnic , which is shortly to become the University of the South Bank .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This was eventually to become the Victoria Dock .
7 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 .
8 He personally favoured Perth as a national capital , but it was unhappily to become the scene of his assassination .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 The chairman at the time , Graham Leonard , was later to become the Bishop of London .
17 She was later to become the council 's vice-chairman .
18 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.
19 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 .
20 KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ .
24 As an early creation of the legal order of the Principate , the trust represents one of the clearest instances of the development of the imperial legal procedure which was yet to become the standard procedure of Rome .
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