Example sentences of "was [adv] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be conceded that the process had for its ‘ desired end ’ , the production of a being capable of experiencing what was eventually to become the enjoyment of life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was eventually to become the Victoria Dock . |
| 4 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 5 | He personally favoured Perth as a national capital , but it was unhappily to become the scene of his assassination . |
| 6 | The outbreak of war with England gave him his great chance and on 7 December 1775 he was commissioned lieutenant in what was soon to become the US Navy . |
| 7 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |
| 10 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 11 | the possession of the motor car was just becoming the norm , but the town had been designed fifteen years earlier |
| 12 | In a parallel development , the old fruit and vegetable market was rapidly becoming the Right-On commercial centre where trendy shopkeepers cashed in with their hand-knitted sweaters , ethnic crafts and designer clothing . |
| 13 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 14 | The Church of Christ was rapidly becoming the Church of middle-aged women . |
| 15 | By the later seventeenth century , therefore , it was clearly becoming the language of diplomacy in general , though perceptibly more slowly in eastern Europe than in the west . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The chairman at the time , Graham Leonard , was later to become the Bishop of London . |
| 20 | She was later to become the council 's vice-chairman . |
| 21 | 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. |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | KATHLEEN Meacock was later to become the second Mrs McAvoy after marrying the gang leader in jail . |
| 24 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 27 | He was fast becoming the most sought after and most beloved interviewee in Britain . |
| 28 | The steel and property tycoon used his mercurial business imagination and millions of pounds raised from the fans to re-structure the club and re-float a creaking ship that was fast becoming the ‘ Marie Celeste ’ of European soccer . |
| 29 | Due to his reputation for honesty , he was fast becoming the top agent in Yorkshire , sole booker of at least sixty clubs , and had fifty or more acts signed to him . |
| 30 | After being the man who 'd sell his sister , he was about to become the man who 'd lost his wife . |