Example sentences of "what [was/were] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
| 2 | The Asshe genius manifested itself , late but truly , in what was to become a flourishing couture business , having moved by then from Highbury to Holborn . |
| 3 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 4 | Around the fort would grow a tiny settlement which gradually , if the fort were well situated on what was to become a primary trading route , evolved into a complex settlement including military servicemen and their families , traders , artisans and peasants . |
| 5 | The unprovoked action sparked off what was to become a national emergency , lasting up to 1960 and involving one of the most hard-fought jungle campaigns of this century . |
| 6 | And suggestions that she was part of a virginal vanguard of ‘ bimbettes ’ — too young and unsullied to be fully-fledged bimbos — brought the first flashes of what was to become a formidable temper . |
| 7 | On a visit to England in 1914 , Charles Pathé initiated what was to become a French sport , mocking the backwardness of British production . |
| 8 | Trotsky thus drew attention to what was to become a recurring theme in critiques of Soviet Marxism — the bureaucratization of the mass political party . |
| 9 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 10 | He said that at times it appeared that the only effective opposition to what was becoming a single-party government was from the press . |