Example sentences of "was to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The trip was to become the epitome of the affair : misconceived , well-meaning , disastrous , courageous , deceptive and surreal . |
| 8 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |
| 9 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
| 10 | Although some other stick makers were bigger , this was to become the longest surviving stick manufacturer in the Stroud area . |
| 11 | The author of Pygmalion and St Joan was to become the most famous playwright in the world . |
| 12 | In 1887 , Kautsky , who was to become the most authoritative exponent of Marxism , gave what became the official account of the economic basis for modern nationalism — the drive to create a unified market for capitalist development . |
| 13 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 14 | He was to become the sire of the first British champion . |
| 15 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 16 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 17 | The outline of what was to become the Special Air Service was roughed out in pencil on sheets of paper in hospital during June and July 1941 . |
| 18 | The possibility of commercial suicide aside , the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album . |
| 19 | The breed 's history is described later , but its systematic improvement , begun at that time by a blacksmith with a herd near Burton-on-Trent , was to become the breeding blueprint once it was adopted by the master breeder Robert Bakewell in 1760 . |
| 20 | In June 1788 Charles Vial , the Frenchman who was to become the first Professor of the London Veterinary College in 1791 , arrived in England with letters of introduction from Pierre-Marie Auguste Broussonet ( 1761–1807 ) to Sir Joseph Banks PRS ( 1743–1820 ) , Samuel Foart Simmons MD , FRS ( 1750–1813 ) and Dr P.D . |
| 21 | Lord Heathfield ( 1750–1813 ) was actively involved in founding the Veterinary College and ( later ) what was to become the Royal Army Veterinary Corps . |
| 22 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 23 | Combe was to become the most famous of British phrenologists . |
| 24 | Therefore the first cell division could be the first manifestation of the motivation of all living things , which was to become the enjoyment of life . |
| 25 | It was at some time within this period of dawning civilisation that the creatures at the head of the biological chain , that is , man 's early forebears , first experienced the effect of an intellectual development that directed their behaviour towards what was to become the origins of human cooperation . |
| 26 | In the 1820s , the brothers William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline began making snuff boxes in a factory in the village and their firm was to become the best-known name in the trade . |
| 27 | This coincided with our decision to work on a book together , so we began compiling what was to become The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes . |
| 28 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 29 | In 1910 there had been 315,281 Germans , 9,491 Poles , 2,124 Kaszubians and 3,021 others living in the area that was to become the Free City . |
| 30 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |