Example sentences of "[be] to become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time I shall give you no set work , you are to take no services in English nor preach in English , your sole task will be to become competent in Burmese . |
| 2 | There could be a significant financial return and obvious promotional benefits for the RBG , if we were to become involved with the production of videos about our gardens and/or gardening in general for the popular/tourist market , for sale through our own and other retail outlets . |
| 3 | But what do you think my parents would think if I were to become involved with you ? |
| 4 | In due course , after the ties that bound nobles and peasants had been finally severed , they were to become elective Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction over all estates of the realm . |
| 5 | He and his mother were to become defiant of officialdom and simply falsified information on official forms whenever they wanted . |
| 6 | Three branch officers — Kerrison , Parsons and Bock — all of whom were to become key political figures , were included among the eight women serving on the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee by 1922 ( MCWC Minutes 11 May 22 ) . |
| 7 | If garbage pickers were to become regular employees , the price of waste paper would rise by at least three times and it would not he worthwhile the company buying it . |
| 8 | Some of these were small ; others like Childs , Hoare , and Barclay , were to become major names in the world of finance . |
| 9 | Thus he and Barbarossa were to become close friends as well as working together , for the next ten years . |
| 10 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 11 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 12 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 13 | This is the haunt of the Natterjack toad , a protected and endangered species with the delightful and befitting name of Bufo Calamita — certainly it would be a calamity if it were to become extinct . |
| 14 | If the moth were to become extinct , the yuccas would never set seed . |
| 15 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 16 | After trading what were to become stereotypical insults about bourgeois middle-class women and hard left male domination , a very large number of us walked out and from then on abandoned the formal conference altogether . |
| 17 | Several WEA students had benefited from the LEA 's support and at least two , E. W. Gurney and Arthur Kempster , were to become prominent figures in the civic life of the county in later years . |
| 18 | In the weeks that followed , the teleprinter messages from Barashevo were to become familiar reading to the official who now hobbled on the built-up shoe that supported his club foot towards his filing cabinets . |
| 19 | Expropriations were to be speeded up and the land settlements were to become new reform units , with wider criteria for membership , thus increasing the number of beneficiaries . |
| 20 | The manufacturers were generally happy with the BEA 's conservatism , which suited their export concentration on low technology markets , and gave them a relatively easy and highly profitable life ( though as the 1950s advanced more of them were to become worried that they were missing out on new technical developments as their world market share slipped ) . |
| 21 | Iran 's main riposte to the original Iraqi push took place in the south and centre of the 730-mile ( 1,175 km ) long battlefront to which both sides were to become accustomed . |
| 22 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 23 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 24 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 25 | If such a will were to become evident , then there are a number of steps that could be taken . |
| 26 | ‘ Think what would happen if she were to become doubtful about her collection . |
| 27 | Moreover , several of the leading reformers , who were to become important administrators in local and national government agencies , were also prominent in the youth movement and had no wish to weaken it : Jackson , Russell , Paterson , and Norman Chamberlain . |
| 28 | They included , for example , exemptions for industrial development certificates and relief from development land tax , both of which were to become irrelevant when these regulations were abolished everywhere . |
| 29 | What is important is to become breathless , to raise the heartbeat , to stretch all parts of the body . |
| 30 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |