Example sentences of "who have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , a man 's experience of grief when he loses his life-partner is similar to a woman 's ; but there are one or two important differences worth bearing in mind if you are caring for an elderly parent who has become a widower . |
| 2 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 3 | Those are the words of Rose Laird , a pioneer in skincare who has become a legend in the beauty industry . |
| 4 | Going to ‘ day care ’ may involve too early a start for someone who has become a night owl while living alone . |
| 5 | WE were the first to tip you off about Ryan Giggs , who has become a household name at Manchester United … now we 're telling you to watch out for another youngster . |
| 6 | Ellis was succeeded by Beto , who has become a man of considerable controversy , both with supporters and detractors , in writings about the history of prisons . |
| 7 | The lines of a-poem were written on a plaque at the end of our corridor , ( He who has become a son of France , not through blood received , but by blood spilt . ) |
| 8 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 9 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 10 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 11 | Daniel , who had become a specialist in wild blows of chance , thought he understood some of it . |
| 12 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 13 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 14 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 15 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |
| 16 | By this time most of the contracts were being negotiated by William James ( later Viscount ) Pirrie [ q.v. ] , who had become a partner in 1874 . |
| 17 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 18 | Ellen Wilkinson , with the passion of a true crusader who had become an MP for Jarrow , captured the essence of the life of this section of the working class when she wrote : |
| 19 | Wild horses appeared in the shape of Tom Moran , a Yorkshire-born engineer who had become an official of the Thai Snooker Association after spending 20 years in the country . |