Example sentences of "[vb past] become [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being bound apprentice to the barber-surgeon Edward Nourse , he rose to become master of anatomy to the Corporation of Surgeons and , for nearly forty years , Surgeon to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 2 | The episode had become part of family lore , as well as suggesting that the best place to be was Trazior itself . |
| 3 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 4 | On June 3rd he announced that he had become head of state , prime minister and chief of the armed forces . |
| 5 | Appointed Assistant Classicist to Horn in 1951 , he had become Head of Department and Editor of The Stopfordian on the latter 's retirement in 1959 . |
| 6 | The chair of the Consultative Council was Redha Malek ( who in 1977 had become Minister of Information and Culture under President Boumedienne ) . |
| 7 | D. G. James had become Professor of English ; he had need of a medievalist . |
| 8 | A resistance leader in the eight-year colonial war against France , Ben Bella had become President on independence in 1962 . |
| 9 | The Goldsmiths heard by means of anonymous reports that he was often absent , attending meetings of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Co. during school hours , and also that he had become Rector of Northenden . |
| 10 | He progressed to become director of engineering in and then , after the merger last year , head of engineering for . |
| 11 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 12 | The bill , expected to become law before Easter , contains virtually no details of the proposed scheme , which is still being worked out in negotiations with financial institutions . |