Example sentences of "would become a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would becoming a European business alter the scale of the targets in our plans ? |
| 2 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 3 | With a wife and child to support he would become a new man . |
| 4 | The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster . |
| 5 | ‘ Should any ‘ special inspection ’ or ‘ sanctions ’ be imposed on us … it would become a dangerous train plunging the whole territory , both North and South , into the scourge of war , ’ the official Workers Party newspaper declared in a commentary . |
| 6 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 7 | But he was studying what he wanted to know , and would become a rich farmer in time . |
| 8 | Lester had discovered an actor whom he admired and believed would become a major star . |
| 9 | But truthfully , none of the Holy Trinity really imagined , in their wildest dreams , that things would go this well , that Enya would become a major world star , with her records selling in vast quantities throughout the world . |
| 10 | If this could be rephrased objectively it would become a helpful goal within the ABA model . |
| 11 | In the 1950s , it seemed as if there might be a place for literature in the academy , so that the writing of fiction or poetry , of criticism , and the teaching of literature would become a unified form of life . |
| 12 | Samuel arrived in Algeciras late in 1939 , after a journey of three months , not long after General Franco announced that Tangier would become a Spanish territory . |
| 13 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
| 14 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 15 | As for the Tutorial Classes Committee , Jacques would become a joint Secretary of the RAC , a particularly difficult sticking point for officers of the Cambridge Board . |
| 16 | The campaign of the 2/2 Independent Company on Timor island would become a classic guerrilla campaign . |
| 17 | We all decided he would become a famous artist . |
| 18 | Paris would become a European capital to which all would look with envy and a desire to emulate its splendours . |
| 19 | She never dreamed that I would become a managing director ! |
| 20 | No sooner than formally constituted , the Standard reported the links would become a great boom to the town , although before January 1907 was out , a Leader article read as follows , ( doubtless written by either Charles Luker or a member of the Club Committee ) — ‘ It is to be hoped that a commencement of the projected new golf links at Henley will not be long delayed . |
| 21 | But for most states and governments the crucial question was whether Britain would become a committed member of any European organisation . |
| 22 | Hot fusion budgets on the line ; tritium production for weapons ; India believing that test-tube fusion would become a classified secret in the West . |
| 23 | Deemed to have been a great success , the HAA indicated that this sort of event would become a regular part of their work — being an extension of their long declared task , to increase the fund of knowledge relating to the operation and display of historic aircraft . |
| 24 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
| 25 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 26 | Russia had already announced , on Nov. 22 , that Vneshekonombank ( Soviet bank for foreign economic affairs ) , named as the body responsible for co-ordinating debt repayment in October [ see p. 38537 ] , would become a commercial bank under Russian control from Dec. 15 and Gosbank would lie under the control of the Russian Central Bank , until the creation of a banking union between the republics . |
| 27 | The vital grab at a mouse with sharp claws extended would become a useless gesture . |
| 28 | It would become a magic talisman . |
| 29 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 30 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |