Example sentences of "was [adv] to become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political centre suffered a series of heart attacks from 1905 onwards , of which the body of society as a whole was only to become fully aware after 1928 . |
| 2 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 3 | If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so . |
| 4 | This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent . |
| 5 | And at some point it would all become as real as it was ever to become again , as the happy escaper slid into dreams until morning . |
| 6 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 7 | After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure . |
| 8 | He played little first-class cricket , but was later to become better known as the founder of a very substantial and internationally-known insurance broking business in Paris . |
| 9 | North Africa had been reconquered from the Vandals in the 530s , but was never to become securely integrated into the Byzantine empire . |