Sentence examples for become a comprehensive from inspiring English sources

A former grammar school and centre of excellence, it was forced to become a comprehensive under Harold Wilson's government.

Its goal is to become a comprehensive listing site for the UK's rapidly growing local food network.

It had grown because it was the trading hub of all North China, and it had become a comprehensive industrial city with more than 4000 factories.

The event, which has run most years since 2007, began as a means to win over the developer community and has now become a comprehensive and highly engineered launchpad for the company's annual plans.

But by the end of the war in 1975, it had become a comprehensive transportation network with five main, roughly parallel, roads and 21 crossroads that covered nearly 12,500 miles.

Currently operating in Washington DC, Chicago, Trenton and Boston, it has become a comprehensive public resource for those wishing to understand more about violent crime - as well as see where it is happening.

The school was a grammar in the 1960s, but became a comprehensive in the 1970s.

London's transport network became a comprehensive system, not a fractured, chaotic one.

His human figures are always spiritual symbols – and in the process, his art becomes a comprehensive experiment with the human body whose only parallel is in Picasso.

This was a problem with my education when I got to William Ellis, a former grammar school moving to a mixed intake; my brother Adam was the first head boy when it became a comprehensive.

Initially a Rochdale comprehensive, the building called Waterloo Road subsequently became an independent school after merging with a nearby posh private outfit and still later – after being closed for failing to meet standards – was relocated to Scotland (a different educational system), where it became a comprehensive again.