Example sentences of "was to become " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like an enlargement of the postcard which , in an age of mechanical reproduction , it was to become , commemorating the tourist attraction which it was also to become . |
| 2 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 3 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 4 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 5 | ARTHUR SCARGILL , the miners ' president , refused yesterday to deny reports that he was to become a Labour MP . |
| 6 | In welcoming the crew , the Rajah Curry House in Liverpool 13 can not have anticipated the battlefield of cables , cameras and kormas it was to become . |
| 7 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 8 | To put teeth into it , Pomgol was chaired by M. I. Kalinin , who was to become president of the newly formed USSR in December 1922 . |
| 9 | His body was washed ashore on what was to become Omaha Beach . |
| 10 | The churchwarden Mrs Eagleston was to become a devoted friend of Ramsey . |
| 11 | This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social . |
| 12 | The decision set in motion a chain reaction that was to become an international phenomenon — hundreds of shops , all a mirror image of her original concept no matter where in the world they are located . |
| 13 | This transformation was due first to the influx of runaway serfs into the towns which meant that labourers free from the personal ties of feudalism , but having no access to the means of production , became a dependent and exploitable group which was to become the proletariat . |
| 14 | In all available time not devoted to teaching , to domestic life or to friendship , Lewis had been hard at work , ever since the late 1920s , on the book which was to become The Allegory of Love . |
| 15 | On a visit to England in 1914 , Charles Pathé initiated what was to become a French sport , mocking the backwardness of British production . |
| 16 | As a young socialist in Weimar Germany she shared her life and ideals first with Rafael Buber , son of the Jewish theologian and philosopher Martin Buber , then with Heinz Neumann , who was to become leader of the German Communist party until Stalin had him removed in 1932 . |
| 17 | He could have had no idea that Mr Waterhouse was to become one of the greatest civic architects of the north , for in 1856 , when Hinderton Hall was built , he was still at the brink of his career . |
| 18 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 19 | I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’ |
| 20 | Finding ways round the block of Arab Nationalist states , that stretched from Syria in the north to the southern frontier of the Sudan in the south , was to become one of the major tactical problems faced by the Defence operational staffs and the Diplomatic Service throughout the 1960s . |
| 21 | The committee system was to become standard practice in aircraft development in Europe for the rest of the century . |
| 22 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 23 | At 1.24am on April 26th 1986 , the 14 men in the control room of reactor number four at Chernobyl witnessed the first stirrings of what was to become the worst nuclear accident in history . |
| 24 | He was establishing a pattern of behaviour that with minimal alterations was to become essential to his habitual well-being : long walks with a selected companion , in place of the organized games and sports of boyhood and middle-school days ; the acquisition of semi-rural skills — fishing , bird nesting , skinning pelts , skilful carpentry , well-arranged collecting of eggs and butterflies and specimens ; and , always , the adventure of trespass and unusual exploration that was , in some frenetic way , aimed at the rapid expansion of suburban villa London into older , more rural surrounding communities . |
| 25 | Although writing was to become his new addiction , he had actually started his novel ( working title Dead Man Walkin' ) when he lived in San Francisco . |
| 26 | Most obviously , its rising trade-union support ensured that it was to become the party of the working class , a process which was speeded up by the split within the Liberal Party during the First World War . |
| 27 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 28 | Whether she intended it or not , Emily 's deed during the 1913 Derby at Epsom afforded her the status of martyr , and her grave was to become a shrine . |
| 29 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 30 | The trip was to become the epitome of the affair : misconceived , well-meaning , disastrous , courageous , deceptive and surreal . |