Example sentences of "he was appoint [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 2 | In 1949 , on the strength of his military experience , he was appointed to the Ministry of Defence ; and three years later he was seconded to the UK Delegation to Nato . |
| 3 | José and Paz Puig de la Bellacasa have both done so much good for both Spain and Britain since he was appointed to the Court of St. James 's in 1983 . |
| 4 | He was one of sixteen lawyers asked by the Privy Council in 1588 to prepare bills on judicial reform and to consider the revision of existing statutes ; in 1589 he was appointed to the committee of privileges and to some ten others , including one concerning pluralities and non-residence . |
| 5 | Initially he was appointed to the air staff at Bomber Command . |
| 6 | He was appointed to the Company 's service in 1741 . |
| 7 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
| 8 | He was appointed to the state 's Superior Court in 1978 , to its Supreme Court in 1983 , and to the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990 . |
| 9 | As director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven until 1987 ( the year he was appointed to the Gemeentemuseum ) , he left behind a sizeable financial deficit , caused by overspending on buying modern art and on travel expenses . |
| 10 | Mentioned in dispatches and twice wounded , he was appointed to the DSO in 1918 . |
| 11 | In 1916 he was appointed to the DSO for exceptionally valuable work with this force . |
| 12 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 13 | Having completed all his examinations in four months , instead of the usual six , he was appointed to the rank of sub-inspector and , in that capacity , between 1860 and 1868 he served in counties Tipperary , Donegal , and Kilkenny , and in Belfast . |
| 14 | In 1898 he was appointed to the Bank of England 's court , and joined its influential committee of treasury in 1915 . |
| 15 | Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | He was appointed to the post of ‘ Deputy Secretary-General of Information ’ in the Vichy regime but resigned in January 1941 . |
| 17 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |
| 18 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 19 | In 1938 he moved to the School of Oriental & African Studies in the same university and in 1944 he was appointed to the Chair of Linguistics , the first chair of that title in the UK . |
| 20 | I have never met him since for I left Bristol before he was appointed to the Chair of Music but he was remembered with affection by many of my peers . |
| 21 | In recognition of Dicke 's outstanding clinical and scientific capacities he was appointed to the Chair of Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utrecht and he became Medical Director of the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in 1957 . |
| 22 | His career as a linguist in Britain dates from 1928 when he was appointed to the Department of Phonetics at the University of London . |
| 23 | Favour was first bestowed upon him by Mr Kinnock in l987 when he was appointed to the policy review group on democracy for the individual and the community convened by Roy Hattersley . |
| 24 | At Local Government reorganisation in 1974 he was appointed as the Field Officer to set up the innovatory Biological Databank . |
| 25 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 26 | In 1642 he was appointed by the House of Commons to give a weekly lecture at Lewisham , Kent , but was obstructed by the vicar and some of the local inhabitants . |
| 27 | He ought to know ; he was appointed by the Department to run British Coal . |
| 28 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |