Example sentences of "[adv] to become the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 2 | And he let the others in the cast know it , including that young actress , Sheila Hancock , who was soon to become the major star she now is . |
| 3 | In fact there had not been one unified element to the train which followed Artai 's progress but several , and those which were the designated efforts of individual districts of the city , or of the guilds , now moved away to become the driving force behind a carnival which ruled every street . |
| 4 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 5 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
| 6 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 7 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 8 | Frank Jacques was appointed from a large and well-qualified field of candidates ; one was later to become the General Secretary of the National Association of the WEA and another the chief Education Officer of a large county LEA . |
| 9 | After the country 's first multiparty elections of April 1991 , a People 's Assembly still dominated by the Albanian Party of Labour ( PLA — later to become the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) had returned Alia to the renamed post of President of the Republic [ see pp. 38160 ; 38208 ] . |
| 10 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |
| 11 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 12 | Further lectures by both Coleridge and Southey were to follow , those which Coleridge delivered including one attacking the slave trade and another concerning the Hair Powder Tax ( later to become the improbable subject of his first sermon ) ; and at the end of June he began a series at the Assembly Coffee House on the Quay comparing the English Civil War and the French Revolution . |
| 13 | William Penn , who founded Pennsylvania , was baptised at All Hallows , and John Quincy Adams married there in 1797 ; he was later to become the sixth president of the U.S.A. |
| 14 | Franklin , who was 18 years Gould 's senior , had established ‘ for the better class of colonists ’ a scientific society , the first of its kind in the colonies ( and later to become the Royal Society of Hobart Town ) and welcomed the ornithologist 's arrival with great enthusiasm . |
| 15 | From these small beginnings , the Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( later to become the Royal Association for the Deaf ) took its roots . |
| 16 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 17 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
| 18 | As an early creation of the legal order of the Principate , the trust represents one of the clearest instances of the development of the imperial legal procedure which was yet to become the standard procedure of Rome . |
| 19 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 20 | The transferee of a straight bill also acquires the right to notify the carrier of the transfer , and thereby to become the direct obligee of whatever obligations the carrier owed to the transferor of the bill immediately before the notification , including delivery of the goods . |
| 21 | O M two , subsequently to become the blue route , offers a less damaging solution than O M one which would cut through the heart of the Nidd Gorge , creating a major environmental conflict . |
| 22 | He modified the Nixon bill ( subsequently to become the Clean Air Act of 1970 ) to require 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions below 1970 federal standards for hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide by 1975 , with a similar reduction in oxides of nitrogen below 1971 emission levels a year later . |