Example sentences of "[adj] he be [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1365 he was granted the post of master mason to Wells Cathedral , apparently through the influence of William of Wykeham [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | In 1985 he was awarded the CBE . |
| 3 | In 1969 he was awarded the CBE for services to the theatre . |
| 4 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 5 | In 1913 he was offered the post of imperial meteorologist in India . |
| 6 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |
| 7 | When the landlord refused to renew his lease , Walton moved to Bentonville , Arkansas , where in 1950 he was granted the franchise of the Ben Franklin chain . |
| 8 | In 1847 he was awarded the Legion of Honour by Louis Philippe for his services to France . |
| 9 | for the past ten he 's dominated the world of barefoot … this weekend … he skies in the British national Championships which are being held at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold water park … |
| 10 | Douglas French is so concerned he 's raised the matter in parliament . |
| 11 | In 1978 he was awarded the MBE for his services to astronomy . |
| 12 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
| 13 | In 1800 he was given the Resolution ( 74 guns ) and in 1803 he was captain of the Zealand , the flagship of Sir James ( later first Baron ) de Saumarez [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | From 1394 he was rebuilding the nave of Winchester Cathedral and in 1400–2 was paid by Queen 's College , Oxford , in connection with building the hall . |
| 15 | I think Wilko 's preference for Deano is n't unfounded , given that he 's rattled the post often enough despite not scoring . |
| 16 | In March 1617 he was granted the profit on the extra import duty levied on the goods of foreign merchants entering the country ( a kind of revenue farm ) , in place of Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v. ) , who was moving on to higher things . |
| 17 | The more I repeated those I was willing to talk about , the more determined he was to accept the job . |
| 18 | ‘ The common denominators in all these factors , as a mathematician would say , are Dacourt and Millet but , first , we do n't know for certain if the wine sent to the Abbe Gerard was in fact the same he was drinking the night he died . |
| 19 | By 1974 he was sounding the danger warning with something like panic . |