Example sentences of "when he became [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 2 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 3 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 4 | When he became Prime Minister he was all too aware of the difficulties which British industry was facing . |
| 5 | When he became Prime Minister he was determined to rectify the situation and , switching to the traditional Conservative policies of the early nineteenth century , he decided to call a general election and go to the electorate with a policy of protectionism . |
| 6 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |
| 7 | Celebrated disclaimants have included the Earl of Home , when he became Prime Minister , and Lord Hailsham , when he thought he might . |
| 8 | And when he became Prime Minister the recession intensified . |
| 9 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 10 | Engstrom had been Deputy Finance Minister until 11 days previously when he became interim Finance Minister on Kjell-Olof Feldt 's resignation from the caretaker government . |
| 11 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock 's motions says : ‘ This House , recalling the clear undertakings given by David Montgomery to Mirror staff when he became chief executive of MGN that he would give the group 's editors freedom to edit and not interfere with the editorial and political direction of the papers , deplores the actions which forced the departure of Alastair Campbell … |
| 13 | Henry III appointed Household officers like his Poitevin favourite Peter des Rivaux : when he became Chief Justice of the Forest for life in 1232 , des Rivaux was already Keeper of the Wardrobe , the Chamber and the Treasury of the royal household , and became Treasurer of the Exchequer in the following year . |
| 14 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 15 | Eden and still more Ernest Bevin ( when he became foreign secretary in July 1945 ) were sceptical when they were not hostile . |