Example sentences of "who [verb] to become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( e ) ‘ member ’ means a person who agrees to become a member of a body corporate and whose name is entered in its register of members ; |
| 2 | Not for myself , ’ he added hastily , ‘ but for the widow with hungry mouths to feed , the boy who wants to become a scholar . |
| 3 | Runners-up included ten-year-olds Claire Butler , from , Pickering , Yorkshire , who intends to become a journalist and start a paper called the Nosey Parker , and Wesley Thomas , from Middlesbrough , who wants to be an ecological dustman because he ‘ likes getting mucky ’ . |
| 4 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 5 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 6 | So a married man who wishes to become a satyāgrahi requires the consent of his wife since her rights have to be taken into consideration in this matter . |
| 7 | ‘ Who wishes to become a refugee ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Who wishes to become a refugee ? ’ he repeated . |
| 9 | The literal meaning of brahmacārya is the same in both cases , but the discipline required of one who resolves to become a vānaprasthin , differs from that required of the student . |
| 10 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 11 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |