Example sentences of "who become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mentor during the stay was the Secretary of State for Wales , George Thomas ( later created Lord Tonypandy ) , who became a lifelong friend as a result . |
| 2 | She is an iconoclast who became a grumpy conservative , rejecting the modern industrial world in a grand wholesale manner . |
| 3 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 4 | They had three sons and three daughters , the youngest son being Henry Thomas Colebrooke [ q.v. ] , who became a noted Sanskrit scholar . |
| 5 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 6 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 7 | Another favourite at our CBR recital series was a young pianist from Winnipeg , Jack Henderson , who became a great friend and companion to Arthur Benjamin , and who accompanied him when he returned to London some years later . |
| 8 | It was the sort of goal that Giorgio Chinaglia — the Welsh-born centre-forward of the 1970s who became a great Lazio and national team hero — was famed for scoring , and how they loved seeing their new idol produce some of the same . |
| 9 | EDMUND Garvey was an old-fashioned policeman who became a controversial head of the Irish Republic 's force during one of its most turbulent periods . |
| 10 | This was All McDowell who became a close friend of mine , founded i-D magazine and coined the phrase ‘ Fuck Art : Let's Dance . ’ |
| 11 | After being wounded and briefly taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons , he joined the Intelligence Bureau in Cairo , later known as the Arab Bureau , in December 1914 with T. E. Lawrence [ q.v. ] , who became a close friend and ally . |
| 12 | I speak , of course , of Mike Teague — once of England , British Lions and Gloucester , who became a battered , knackered cripple . |
| 13 | In those years , he visited Vienna and met one of Meli 's relatives , Lotti Meitner-Graf — who became a firm friend of the couple . |
| 14 | ( An able pupil of mine who became a successful solicitor was glad he did not become a barrister , who in his experience is driven too hard ; the clerk piles too much work on him , he has no one to delegate to , and has virtually no assistance except of a secretarial kind ; also , counsel in general common law practice has much travelling to do . ) |
| 15 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 16 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 17 | John was succeeded by his son , John Fitzjohn [ q.v. ] , who became a leading supporter of Simon of Montfort . |
| 18 | And they want a three-match shoot-out between Lewis and Christie , who became a guaranteed millionaire the split second he flashed across the line in Barcelona on Saturday evening . |
| 19 | Hyndman , who became a patriotic supporter of a war to which most British Marxists were opposed . |
| 20 | Soon afterwards , his daughter married an Englishman called Sevier , a Director of the Siberian Bank and they had a son , Alfred Hynam Sevier , who became a medical practitioner to the Court . |
| 21 | ‘ Diego Rivera , who became a world-famous fresco painter when he went back to his native Mexico , was 25 when he came to Paris in 1914 , a political as well as an artistic rebel and just the sort of companion Modi enjoyed . |
| 22 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 23 | Ubaldo Scavone was appointed as Minister for Industry and Commerce on May 23 in place of Antonio Zuccolillo Moscarda who became a presidential economic adviser . |
| 24 | Samaranch , who became a senior civil servant in Franco 's Spain , is being accused of a long-standing involvement with a Spanish fascist movement . |
| 25 | From 1841 her childhood was spent near the centre of Manchester , though her father , who became a senior partner in his Manchester shipping firm , prospered and was in 1855 able to move to the far more select area of Whalley Range . |
| 26 | The resulting expansion in business necessitated the formation of a partnership with his young associate Guy Green , who became a full partner in 1763 . |
| 27 | " It is not the policy of the British Government to encourage any of those persons who become a British responsibility to put forward claims that they are NOT Soviet citizens . " |
| 28 | All that might be allowed for in this context was that individual cases might be considered if I particularly pressed " , and it has to be added that this was in full accordance with the AFHQ instruction of 7 March which stated that " it is not the policy of she British Government to encourage any of those persons who become a British responsibility to put forward claims that they are NOT Soviet Citizens " . |
| 29 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 30 | The other two were The Citadel ( 1938 ) , from A. J. Cronin 's novel about a once-idealistic doctor who becomes a cynical practitioner to the upper classes until the death of his friend on the operating table leads to a revival of his old principles , and Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) , a hymn to the glories of the English public school . |