Example sentences of "to become [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The permanent secretaries in charge of many government departments are arts graduates who have risen through the ranks of the meritocracy to become Knights of the Realm and heads of Oxbridge colleges , simply by virtue of their intellectual training , character , hard work and a modicum of good luck . |
| 2 | 30–40 teams comprising between 130–150 people braved the elements and leapt boating lakes , scaled Peace Pagodas and sipped warm tea in their desperate ( and sometimes pathetic ! ) attempts to become winners of the coveted 1991 Quiz Quest title . |
| 3 | GREENPEACE , who have been among nuclear power 's strongest critics in the past , could switch to become supporters of the industry . |
| 4 | They were also both to become heroes of the counter-culture movement . |
| 5 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 6 | A stall at Durham University Freshers ' Fair attracted a surprising amount of interest when many freshers paid the requisite two pounds to become members of the ‘ Apathy Society ’ . |
| 7 | Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee . |
| 8 | Its members may hope automatically to become members of the Federal Council , the upper house of the proposed new Federal Assembly . |
| 9 | Because its prime concern had to be the restoration of viability , then where that implied a loss of jobs , the Agency would only recommend rescue if the workforce understood and accepted the implication , would arrange for the selection of those who were to become members of the co-operative and , by exclusion , decide who would lose their jobs . |
| 10 | So , by suggestion , Lawrence invites us to become members of the mining community , and to share the lot of the shadowy miners and the stooping housewife . |
| 11 | The subscribers are then ‘ deemed to have agreed to become members of the company and on its registration shall be entered in such in its register of members . ’ |
| 12 | They decided to become members of the CIS provided they were given the status of its co-founders . |
| 13 | The European Council recalls that the treaty on European union which the heads of state and government have now agreed , provides that any European state whose systems of government are founded on the principle of democracy may apply to become members of the Union . |
| 14 | The only relaxation presently available from the absolute prohibition against foreign lawyers ( other than those who duly obtain the professional qualifications necessary to become members of the legal profession in England and Wales ) undertaking the work of solicitors and barristers is that afforded under the European Communities ( Services of Lawyers ) Order 1978 which , as amended , has effect for the stated purpose of enabling an EC qualified lawyer to pursue his professional activities in any part of the UK by providing , subject to conditions , the services otherwise reserved to the local professions ( advocates , barristers and solicitors ) . |
| 15 | Group Capt Gleave , who died on Saturday night in a Berkshire hospital , was one of hundreds of RAF pilots to become members of the Guinea Pig Club after pioneering surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe rebuilt their badly burned faces . |
| 16 | Prior to the formation of this body , three entirely independent examining bodies , each giving its own certificate to successful students , existed for persons wishing to become teachers of the deaf . |
| 17 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 18 | The gift was by way of an invitation for the Prince and Princess both to become patrons of the appeal ; it was the idea of professional fund-raiser Marion Allford , who had been brought in as the appeal director . |
| 19 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 20 | How many will be back to become fellows of the Guild next year ? . |