Example sentences of "become the leader " in BNC.
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| 1 | France after 1960 quite quickly became the leader of western European activities in space and seems certain so to remain beyond the year 2000 . |
| 2 | Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . " |
| 3 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 4 | Lillywhite 's yellow jersey was threatened when Czech rider Daniel Kovar , in a race-long break with Walsham , became the leader on the road . |
| 5 | The difference between a Basque and a Catalan nationalist politician , it is said , is that the Catalan hopes to be prime minister of Spain but the Basque dreams of becoming the leader of an independent state . |
| 6 | I hope this little titbit of news about the crews that were formed and especially the ones of Rivetus because that is what you 're writing about , since he was the only one back from the Hundredth Bomb Group but how well we knew him in training since the two crews trained together and of course the flying part of it and myself have coordinated our flying with our co-pilots , we used to , just the two of us go up , and we would actually fly a circle around one plane over another , so one plane was and the other plane would fly circles around it and keeping up with it and this calls for close teamwork between the pilot and the co-pilot because as you 're keen and went into view and and then of course we switched roles and I would become the leader and he 'd fly circles around me , training with his co-pilot . |
| 7 | In short , after promising to hit the ground running , people wonder why the President has become the leader of the Slow Is Beautiful Movement . |
| 8 | Within twelve years of his entry into Parliament Disraeli had become the leader of the Tory Party in the House of Commons : an amazing achievement , due partly to an unforeseen political cataclysm , but in the main to sheer political skill , patience and courage . |
| 9 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 10 | But we are the United States of America , the leader of the West that has become the leader of the world . |
| 11 | Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn . |
| 12 | First , the leader of the majority group now becomes the leader of the council — a position many officers were reluctant to recognise even a few years ago — and acts as a political ‘ chief executive ’ . |
| 13 | So , when he died , the younger son , the mother 's favourite , had to become the leader . |