Example sentences of "[pers pn] become [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 2 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 3 | In 1902 she became editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine , the position she held till her death . |
| 4 | Basically we become part of the strategic planning process of the company , ’ Carroll said . |
| 5 | They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion . |
| 6 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 7 | Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire . |
| 8 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 9 | To do so will not , of course , make any of the problems go away ; what it will do , however , is to shift the emphasis of our work so that the problems no longer undermine its effectiveness , indeed they become part of the raw material of our work . |
| 10 | ‘ But if they become part of the post-1994 set up , clever non-producers will join the company that pays the best price — and could jump from company to company on a regular basis , ’ forecast Nestle 's chief milk buyer , John Ross . |
| 11 | During this period , Aleppo 's status changed dramatically ; from being a major trade centre and quasi-independent Ottoman provincial capital , it became part of the new Syrian state and subordinate to the capital Damascus . |
| 12 | But when county boundaries were reorganised in nineteen seventy four it became part of the new county of avon . |
| 13 | This Fire Brigade was to continue as a Local Volunteer Force until the 1939–45 war when it became part of the National Fire Service . |
| 14 | It became part of the Royal Train in 1966 . |
| 15 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 16 | In 1964 , he became secretary of the then Council for Voluntary Welfare and was closely involved in the establishment of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , War on Want , Voluntary Services Overseas and Voluntary Services Belfast , as well as the Crossing Care Attendants Scheme and Family Supports , now called Family Aids . |
| 17 | In 1908 he became secretary of the historical section of the committee for imperial defence . |
| 18 | At the request of Archbishop A. C. Tait [ q.v. ] in 1881 , he became secretary of the royal commission on the ecclesiastical courts and compiled its report ( 1883 ) . |
| 19 | Exhibiting nothing more than competence , he became keeper of the great wardrobe on 27 June 1369 , at the time when Edward III , and hence his court and government , were lapsing into passivity . |
| 20 | As a cardinal deacon , he became part of the papal " civil " service , acting on occasion as auditor of lawsuits and witnessing administrative acts of the curia . |
| 21 | Appointed KCB in 1725 , Sutton moved the address in 1726 , the same year he became sub-governor of the Royal African Company . |
| 22 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |
| 23 | Medvedev was a former rector of the Central Committee 's Academy of Social Sciences , and in September 1988 he became head of the newly-established ideological commission of the Central Committee and thus the leadership 's most prominent theoretician . |
| 24 | Later he became chairman of the orchestral committee for the Leeds music festival . |
| 25 | In 1915 he became chairman of the advisory council of British Dyes Ltd . |
| 26 | He was favourably impressed by Utrecht , ‘ a brave City , a University with godly professors , full of English ’ , but pressed on to Arnhem , where he became pastor of the English church . |
| 27 | In 1964 he became secretary-general of the National Liberation Front — the political arm of the Viet Cong — and thus officially the top communist leader in southern Vietnam , although more power was held by senior leaders from the north . |
| 28 | But when he became leader of the Unionist Party , he also became the target for accusations of vacillating leadership . |
| 29 | He became leader of the northern branch of the Communist Party in December 1945 ; there was always latent rivalry between Kim and Pak Hon-yong , the leader of the southern branch . |
| 30 | He took up an appointment lecturing at Napier Technical College in 1979 : there he became Chair of the Civil Engineering Department . |