Example sentences of "was [verb] to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invited me to go and see the Church in Africa and fortunately I accepted his invitation before he was recalled to become the APF director . |
| 2 | In that year Chapter I , dealing with Service of Process , was revised to become the Hague Service Convention of 1965 . |
| 3 | Berman ( 1983 ) , following Benjamin and Simmel , gives a vivid impression of the impact of urban form as the media through which modernity was transmitted to become the precondition for contemporary Western society . |
| 4 | From the flamboyant tone in which the speculators discussed the prospects for Denwood , a stranger within its precincts might have come to the conclusion that he was standing upon ground which was destined to become the Winnipeg of the Middle West . |
| 5 | The idea was just beginning to catch on in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run . |
| 6 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 7 | In 1886 he was invited to become the chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , for whom he completed , equipped , and organized the engineering workshops in Horwich , widely regarded as a model of their kind , eventually employing over 10,000 men . |
| 8 | At an extraordinary session of its Supreme Soviet on Sept. 18 , Byelorussia was renamed to become the Republic of Byelarus , and Stanislav Shushkevich was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet — de facto president of the republic — in succession to Nikolai Dementei [ for whose resignation , after supporting the August coup , see p. 38373 ] . |
| 9 | At the time , she was working for Stoy Hayward as a senior audit manager and was aiming to become the firm 's first woman partner — an ambition she had harboured since the day she joined the firm as a trainee accountant in 1982 . |
| 10 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 11 | The mixture was moulded into shapes using a sugary bonding goo and , as 16th Century taste swung across to sweets , the mixture was reduced to become the modern blancmange . |
| 12 | The linear Cubist grid was adapted to become the Futurist ‘ lines of force ’ by which the representational elements are traversed . |
| 13 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 14 | LEICESTER City chairman Brian George yesterday dismissed growing speculation that former Darlington boss Brian Little was set to become the new mannager at Sunderland . |
| 15 | The process of de-industrialization in India under colonial rule began with the deliberate destruction of the cotton manufacturing industry and the opening up of Indian markets to British cotton manufacturers ; from a net exporter , India was reduced to a major importer of cotton manufactures , most of these from Britain , and indeed India was forced to become the single largest importer of British cotton manufactures , sometimes taking as much as 40 per cent of British exports . |
| 16 | In 1934 , he was promoted to become the movement 's Director of Propaganda . |
| 17 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 18 | Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast . |