Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pers pn] became a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children . |
| 2 | Following the collapse of the silk industry it became a centre for collar and shirt manufacture . |
| 3 | Active involvement in the League of Nations Union followed World War I. She became a member of its executive in 1928 and vice-chairman in 1939 . |
| 4 | During the course of that century and with the extension of the Great Northern Coal field it became a mining area . |
| 5 | The essential character of the inner ring is that having ceased to be a coal field it became a suburb without a specific local industrial base . |
| 6 | On leaving the Crown Agents he became a director of Midland Bank and chairman of Thomas Cook , which Midland Bank owned , and he became a director and subsequently chairman of Brooke Bond and a director and subsequently chairman of Royal Insurance . |