Example sentences of "who [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 2 | ( e ) ‘ member ’ means a person who agrees to become a member of a body corporate and whose name is entered in its register of members ; |
| 3 | Broadly speaking , a man 's experience of grief when he loses his life-partner is similar to a woman 's ; but there are one or two important differences worth bearing in mind if you are caring for an elderly parent who has become a widower . |
| 4 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 5 | Those are the words of Rose Laird , a pioneer in skincare who has become a legend in the beauty industry . |
| 6 | Going to ‘ day care ’ may involve too early a start for someone who has become a night owl while living alone . |
| 7 | WE were the first to tip you off about Ryan Giggs , who has become a household name at Manchester United … now we 're telling you to watch out for another youngster . |
| 8 | Ellis was succeeded by Beto , who has become a man of considerable controversy , both with supporters and detractors , in writings about the history of prisons . |
| 9 | The lines of a-poem were written on a plaque at the end of our corridor , ( He who has become a son of France , not through blood received , but by blood spilt . ) |
| 10 | Not for myself , ’ he added hastily , ‘ but for the widow with hungry mouths to feed , the boy who wants to become a scholar . |
| 11 | Runners-up included ten-year-olds Claire Butler , from , Pickering , Yorkshire , who intends to become a journalist and start a paper called the Nosey Parker , and Wesley Thomas , from Middlesbrough , who wants to be an ecological dustman because he ‘ likes getting mucky ’ . |
| 12 | A mutant who survived to become an adult was permitted to live , but he was forbidden to breed to produce more of his kind . |
| 13 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 14 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 15 | So a married man who wishes to become a satyāgrahi requires the consent of his wife since her rights have to be taken into consideration in this matter . |
| 16 | ‘ Who wishes to become a refugee ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Who wishes to become a refugee ? ’ he repeated . |
| 18 | The literal meaning of brahmacārya is the same in both cases , but the discipline required of one who resolves to become a vānaprasthin , differs from that required of the student . |
| 19 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 20 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 21 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 22 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 23 | Daniel , who had become a specialist in wild blows of chance , thought he understood some of it . |
| 24 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 25 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 26 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 27 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |
| 28 | By this time most of the contracts were being negotiated by William James ( later Viscount ) Pirrie [ q.v. ] , who had become a partner in 1874 . |
| 29 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 30 | Ellen Wilkinson , with the passion of a true crusader who had become an MP for Jarrow , captured the essence of the life of this section of the working class when she wrote : |