Example sentences of "in [adj] she become " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a three year stint at the Conservative Research Department , in 1986 she became head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors . |
| 2 | After Wordsworth 's marriage she continued to live in the same house ; in 1829 she became seriously ill , suffering from arteriosclerosis . |
| 3 | In 1886 she became secretary to the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( founded by Emma Patterson ) but resigned in 1889 when events in London 's East End convinced her that a more radical , socialist approach to women 's trade unionism was needed . |
| 4 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 5 | In 1861 she became headmistress of the Davison Infant School , where she remained until 1873 . |
| 6 | In 1985 she became the founder exhibitions director of Manchester 's Cornerhouse Centre ; photography being included in the programming of shows . |
| 7 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 8 | In 1874 she became a lecturer in education , hygiene , and physiology , and vice-principal at the Bishop Otter College in Chichester . |
| 9 | In 1932 she became a nun and was given the name Maria ‘ in memory of St Maria of Egypt who lived a life of penitence in the desert ’ . |
| 10 | In 1862 she became a Nightingale probationer at St Thomas 's Hospital , London . |
| 11 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 12 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 13 | In 1902 she became editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine , the position she held till her death . |
| 14 | In 1909 she became lecturer and director of studies in classics at Newnham , where she gained a reputation as a rigorous but very stimulating and sympathetic teacher . |
| 15 | In 1909 she became editor of the Charity Organisation Review , and in 1914 she published a history of the previous half-century of charitable work in London , Social Work in London 1869–1912 . |
| 16 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 17 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 18 | When the PS returned to power in mid-1988 she became European Affairs Minister-Delegate but resigned in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , declaring France to be " in danger of being undermined by a lack of industrial motivation " . |
| 19 | In 1890 she became editor of Outward Bound , a quarterly journal for colonists , and Homeward Bound , 1892 , for those who returned . |
| 20 | In 1945 she became deputy chairman of the United Nations Association , and in 1949 chairman of its executive committee and joint president ( with Gilbert Murray , q.v . ) . |
| 21 | In 1889 she became general secretary of the Guild , which then had fifty-one branches and a membership of between 1,700 and 1,800 . |
| 22 | Shortly after her début into London society in 1863 she became engaged to Llewellyn Thomas of Llwynmadoc , the heir to a large coal fortune , but his early death from smallpox in 1864 on the eve of their wedding left her to face a lifetime of spinsterhood and good works , divided between Swansea and her London home in fashionable Knightsbridge . |
| 23 | However , she was devoted to her more unconventional father , who agreed that she should go to art school , and in 1910 she became a student under Henry Tonks [ q.v. ] at the Slade School of Art . |