Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1678 he was chosen deputy governor and in the following year was elected governor of the colony . |
| 2 | You see , you see how easy it is to build trainee analysis a very simple format . |
| 3 | Finally in 1979 he was appointed department manager of the Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 5 | In 1932 he was appointed deputy secretary to the Commerce Department of the Government of India , where he remained until the end of the Raj 15 years later . |
| 6 | ‘ All I want is an even spread , after all we are disrupting community life for these people , ’ said Coun Smailes , who is writing a formal letter of complaint to the BBC . |
| 7 | In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 . |
| 8 | This research demonstrates the need to take all referrals seriously and questions how feasible it is to prioritize child abuse referrals by source in deciding whether to investigate some more urgently than others . |
| 9 | In 1912 he was appointed London director of the new Johannesburg Art Gallery and also became valuer of pictures and drawings for the Board of the Inland Revenue ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 10 | Within months he found a patron in Governor Lachlan Macquarie [ q.v. ] of New South Wales , who had ambitious plans for public works in the colony , and in 1816 he was appointed government architect , receiving his emancipation in the following year . |
| 11 | His regiment released him again to pass the Staff College in Quetta , and at the start of World War I in 1914 he was made intelligence officer to the Tanga expeditionary force . |
| 12 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 13 | In 1887 he was appointed district surveyor for Charlton , Lee , and Kidbrooke under the Metropolitan board of works and continued in this post under the London county council . |
| 14 | In 1871 he was appointed surgeon dentist in Scotland to Queen Victoria , a post he held until her death in 1901 . |
| 15 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
| 16 | In 1982 he was appointed Parish Priest at St Andrew 's , Cottam , before his retirement from active Parish duties in 1987 . |
| 17 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |
| 18 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |
| 19 | In 1926 he was made Castle Architect . |
| 20 | They were much more expensive they were called barrels ferris or barrels with iron on . |
| 21 | In 1931 he was appointed consultant designer to Practical Equipment Ltd. , manufacturers of tubular steel furniture . |
| 22 | Although born and educated in Vienna in 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of Economic Science in London University where he remained until accepting a Chair of Social and Moral Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1950 . |
| 23 | In July 1990 she was appointed Personnel Assistant and in August 1990 Personnel Officer . |
| 24 | Alright we were doing company law and |
| 25 | Two years later Gloag became assistant in Scots law at Edinburgh University and in February 1905 he was appointed regius professor of law at Glasgow University . |
| 26 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 27 | In 1624 he was elected charter fellow of the newly founded Pembroke College , Oxford , as founder 's kin . |