Example sentences of "was to become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
| 2 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 3 | In June 1788 Charles Vial , the Frenchman who was to become the first Professor of the London Veterinary College in 1791 , arrived in England with letters of introduction from Pierre-Marie Auguste Broussonet ( 1761–1807 ) to Sir Joseph Banks PRS ( 1743–1820 ) , Samuel Foart Simmons MD , FRS ( 1750–1813 ) and Dr P.D . |
| 4 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 5 | As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site . |
| 6 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 7 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 8 | The possibility of commercial suicide aside , the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album . |
| 9 | What was to become the future firm of Guest , Keen & Nettlefold ( GKN ) began when John Nettlefold opened an ironmonger 's shop at 54 High Holborn , London , in 1823 , and in 1826 a water-mill at Sunbury-on-Thames to make iron wood-screws ; this was followed in 1834 by a steam-powered factory in Baskerville Place off Broad Street in Birmingham , the centre of the screw trade . |
| 10 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When work for the proprietors on what was to become the famous Mason–Dixon line was complete late in 1766 , they began on the Royal Society 's behalf , at Dixon 's suggestion , to measure a degree of the meridian on the Delmarva peninsula in Maryland and to make gravity measurements with a clock sent out by the Society , the same one that Maskelyne had had in St Helena and Dixon took to the Cape in 1761 . |
| 13 | Mosley produced what was to become the standard fascist defence . |
| 14 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |
| 15 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 16 | This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social . |
| 17 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 18 | It was to become the major centre of learning in the Islamic world , and to provide a source of authority for successive rulers of Egypt . |
| 19 | It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage . |
| 20 | In time it was to become the greatest of all . |
| 21 | The legislation which was to become the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , a long statute of 106 Sections and seven schedules , was the most comprehensive since the 1948 Act . |
| 22 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Arnold Leese , who was to become the undis-puted leader of the IFL in 1932 , was highly critical of Dell 's social credit views about Hitler as a supposed Jewish agent , but after Beamish 's death in 1948 he used part of his inheritance to revive the Britons . |
| 25 | The Englishman , Stephen Langton , from Lincolnshire , was to become the foremost biblical scholar of his day and was to stay and teach in Paris . |
| 26 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |
| 27 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 28 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 29 | Some assumed , or were given , names other than their own : Jacques d'Espailly was known as Forte-Epice ; La Hire had a cannon named after him , as did Guillaume de Flavy ; while , in the eighteenth century , La Hire was to become the named knave of hearts on French playing cards . |
| 30 | 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 . |