Example sentences of "to become the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail . |
| 2 | On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Squadron Leader , Bob Illett took time out of his hectic schedule to become the first RAF man to meet the refugees his detachment is helping . |
| 5 | ACTOR Charlton Heston has agreed to become the new US Chairman of the Duxford-based American Air Museum in Britain Campaign . |
| 6 | In winter 1988–9 Siemens purchased IBM 's PBX subsidiary to become the largest PBX supplier in the domestic US market ; Siemens also joined the British GEC bid to purchase Plessey . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It helped , albeit in an unpleasant way , in her campaign to become the next Mrs Jack Butler . |
| 9 | ESSEX are prepared to offer former England captain Keith Fletcher ‘ a job for life ’ in an attempt to persuade him not to become the next England team manager . |
| 10 | A teenager who 's aiming to become the next Paul Daniels has joined the world 's most exclusive group of magicians . |
| 11 | Between 1907 and 1911 he gave lectures which were ultimately to become the renowned Cours Linguistique Générale . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On his father 's death in 1851 John took over his dental practice at 12 Dundas Street , although he did not entirely forgo his medical interests , since in 1859 he proposed the foundation of what was to become the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children . |