Example sentences of "be to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 2 | Foremost amongst the travelling players were the Serious Lovers who were to become the danseurs nobles and ballerinas of classical ballet , because they were always noble heroes and heroines . |
| 3 | Their two servants , known as the Comic Lovers or , later , Harlequin and Columbine , were to become the danseurs classiques or dexi- caractère dancers . |
| 4 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 5 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 6 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 7 | They were to become the crucial factor which saved the Fens from total inundation , and although not generally adopted in Somerset , they fast became a typical feature of such wetland landscapes as the Lancashire Fylde and the Hull valley . |
| 8 | Professor Salibi reasons this is because Nebuchanezzar in 586 BC put an end to this Jewish enclave in lands that eventually were to become the heartland of Mohammed the Prophet . |
| 9 | Drink , on-field violence , erratic behaviour , public notoriety , breaches of the peace , disputes with management , broken curfews , acrimonious transfers , divorce , headlines , bankruptcy and skirmishes with the law were to become the unofficial milestones which marked Scottish football 's ascent into the realm of creative corruption . |
| 10 | The terms of the verbal agreement between the two men were to become the subject of lengthy , costly and bitter litigation , and to make the names of Baron of Buchlyvie and its owners known far outwith Ayrshire and the world of Clydesdales . |
| 11 | These differences of interpretation were to become the basis for new divisions within the ruling Party majority . |
| 12 | Such vacillating fortunes of harvest were to become the norm for Champagne and , perversely , prove to be one of the reasons why this region is able to produce a sparkling wine superior to any other . |
| 13 | Jesus gathered a small band of followers and , through God 's power , they were to become the people of God in the kingdom of God . |
| 14 | The major services of local government , including child care , education , planning and roads , were to become the responsibility of the appropriate departments of the Stormont government . |
| 15 | And while the hierarchy of the Roman Church dictated the texts which were to become the canonical New Testament , the monasteries in Egypt embraced a much more diverse body of teaching , exemplified by the Gospel of Thomas and by the other texts found at Nag Hammadi . |
| 16 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 17 | This book , though most directly concerned with English studies , touched on many wider educational issues which were to become the subject of considerable debate after the war . |
| 18 | By 1808 there was a developed pattern of street violence and the ‘ people ’ of the barrios bajos — the poor southern quarter of Madrid — after functioning as the ‘ blind instruments ’ of an aristocratic fronde against Godoy were to become the heroes of the Second of May , when they rose against the French troops . |
| 19 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 20 | Shortly before the introduction of the national curriculum , the percentages of time actually spent by the average secondary fourth and fifth year child in England on what were to become the national curriculum subjects ( see below ) of the 1988 Act , or their nearest equivalents , were as shown in Figure 10.1 . |
| 21 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 22 | They were to become the cadres of the new social-democratic movement , especially after the end of our period . |
| 23 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 24 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 25 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 26 | Move the cursor onto the first letter of the word which is to become the first letter of the new paragraph . |
| 27 | STANSTED Airport is to become the official point of entry into the UK for all future Bosnian mercy flights , the Home Office confirmed last night . |
| 28 | And if South Africa is to become the engine of growth for the whole of Southern Africa . |
| 29 | His next target is to become the first player to reach 2,000 points for the Welsh All Blacks . |
| 30 | Basically , therefore , the job consists of transferring male pollen from the anthers of the variety that is to be the male parent to the stigma of the variety that is to become the female or ‘ seed parent . |