Example sentences of "when [pers pn] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised . |
| 2 | IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister . |
| 3 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
| 4 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has at last caught up with milk , writes MAGNUS GRIMOND |
| 5 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has resulted in the Government deciding to end the life of the venerable Milk Marketing Board , set up in 1933 to buy all the milk produced in England and Wales , paving the way for what it is claimed will be a totally free market in milk . |
| 6 | If young people get used to the idea of the pub being a centre of the community , a place for sensible conversation and for sensible drinking , they are less likely to abuse the pub and its facilities when they become young adults . |
| 7 | Only when they become international players do they become the responsibility of international coaches . |
| 8 | There are , of course , other forces at work in the global system , and in some respects global capitalism has had to come to terms with these , particularly when they become opposing forces . |
| 9 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 10 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 11 | When it became open house , more people were touched and inspired . |
| 12 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 13 | MR KINNOCK has announced that when he becomes Prime Minister he will give the Elgin marbles to Greece . |
| 14 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 15 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 16 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 17 | When he became Prime Minister he was all too aware of the difficulties which British industry was facing . |
| 18 | When he became Prime Minister he was determined to rectify the situation and , switching to the traditional Conservative policies of the early nineteenth century , he decided to call a general election and go to the electorate with a policy of protectionism . |
| 19 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |
| 20 | Celebrated disclaimants have included the Earl of Home , when he became Prime Minister , and Lord Hailsham , when he thought he might . |
| 21 | And when he became Prime Minister the recession intensified . |
| 22 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 23 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock 's motions says : ‘ This House , recalling the clear undertakings given by David Montgomery to Mirror staff when he became chief executive of MGN that he would give the group 's editors freedom to edit and not interfere with the editorial and political direction of the papers , deplores the actions which forced the departure of Alastair Campbell … |
| 25 | Henry III appointed Household officers like his Poitevin favourite Peter des Rivaux : when he became Chief Justice of the Forest for life in 1232 , des Rivaux was already Keeper of the Wardrobe , the Chamber and the Treasury of the royal household , and became Treasurer of the Exchequer in the following year . |
| 26 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 27 | Eden and still more Ernest Bevin ( when he became foreign secretary in July 1945 ) were sceptical when they were not hostile . |