Example sentences of "[was/were] appoint [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In January 1943 the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill was introduced , providing for the appointment of a Minister whose ‘ sole ministerial responsibility is in connection with town and country planning ’ ; the Bill was passed in February and W.S. Morrison was appointed first Minister . |
2 | Vladimir Meciar ( PAV ) , Interior Minister in the outgoing Slovak government , was appointed Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on June 27 ; Carnogursky was appointed First Deputy Premier . |
3 | Vladimir Shumeiko , formerly president of the Russian Confederation of Entrepreneurs ' Unions ( the managers ' body ) was appointed First Deputy Premier . |
4 | When Captain Owen commissioned Leven , a ship-sloop , and the brig Barracouta in 1821 for his survey of the east coast of Africa , Vidal was appointed first lieutenant in Leven . |
5 | In 1901 Bolton was appointed first headmaster of the new day school at the Architectural Association . |
6 | Sultan Ali Keshtmand , hitherto Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers , was appointed First Vice-President on May 6 . |
7 | On June 6 Ronald Freeman , 51 , was appointed first vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the United States , with the largest stake in the EBRD , had insisted that a US citizen be appointed as deputy to the bank 's ( French ) president Jacques Attali . |
8 | The conservatives of the New Democracy Party promised to tackle the problem when they came back to office in 1990 , but little progress was made until a tough new economics minister , Stephanos Manos , was appointed last year . |