Example sentences of "[conj] he become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader . |
| 2 | Catherine and he became great friends , but Hindley hated him , and was often cruel to him . |
| 3 | However , the tragedy upset Burke and he became convinced people regarded him as a murderer , so he sailed across to the United States . |
| 4 | Anthony Saxton 's management training began with a major international cosmetics company , and he became Managing Director of an advertising agency before joining John Stork in 1978 , where he ran the UK division . |
| 5 | In recognition of Dicke 's outstanding clinical and scientific capacities he was appointed to the Chair of Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utrecht and he became Medical Director of the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in 1957 . |
| 6 | Gehlen 's army career had begun in the late 1920s and as a staunch Nazi supporter he had enjoyed rapid promotion until he became military intelligence chief of Hitler 's Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East . |
| 7 | So would Mr Kinnock topple Thatchergate if he became Prime Minister ? |
| 8 | The question was sent in by a viewer and ran as follows : ‘ Will Mr Kinnock , if he becomes Prime Minister , return the Elgin Marbles to Athens ? ’ |
| 9 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ Since he became Prime Minister , Mr Major comes in about once a year but before that he was more of a regular . |
| 11 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister alleges that the social charter will cost jobs , but will he confirm that nearly three quarters of a million British citizens have lost their jobs since he became Prime Minister ? |
| 13 | Details were revealed as Mr Bush made his tax return public yesterday , something he has done every year since he became vice president in 1981 . |
| 14 | After he became vice president , Rutskoi decided to form a new political party on the basis of his parliamentary fraction . |
| 15 | After he became Prime Minister , I found myself comforting Harold Wilson on a number of occasions . |
| 16 | Grósz said that he became aware of the deployment only after he became Prime Minister in 1987 [ see p. 35593 ] and did " not inquire as to when and how they were brought here " . |
| 17 | Mr Keating first raised the idea of severing ties with the Crown soon after he became Prime Minister in late 1991 . |
| 18 | IN A SPEECH a few weeks after he became Conservative Party chairman , Chris Patten developed an interesting thesis about this election . |
| 19 | Murphy began his career as an apprentice with Vincent O'Brien 's younger brother Phonsie before he became stable jockey for top Irish trainer Paddy Mullins . |
| 20 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 21 | I first became fully aware of Mr Kinnock 's lack of ease with the written word when he and I did a half-hour TV Breakfast Time discussion , shortly before he became Labour leader . |
| 22 | Before he became head groundsman Mr. Offer was a farm manager and won many prizes for stock as well as prizes for the best kept farm . |
| 23 | Howard probably knew some of this , even if vaguely , long before he became High Sheriff . |
| 24 | MR KINNOCK has announced that when he becomes Prime Minister he will give the Elgin marbles to Greece . |
| 25 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 26 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 27 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 28 | When he became Prime Minister he was all too aware of the difficulties which British industry was facing . |
| 29 | When he became Prime Minister he was determined to rectify the situation and , switching to the traditional Conservative policies of the early nineteenth century , he decided to call a general election and go to the electorate with a policy of protectionism . |
| 30 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |