Example sentences of "[was/were] appointed to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the spokesmen were appointed to the Cabinet in 1979 , usually to departments which they had shadowed in opposition . |
| 2 | Yesterday receivers were appointed to the breweries . |
| 3 | Fifteen MPs were appointed to the Committee , and Hall was elected chairman at its first meeting on 30th May . |
| 4 | Finally the following were appointed to the executive committee : The Rev Fanshawe Bingham M A ( Bristol ) Robert Armour ( Liverpool ) H B Beale ( Stroud ) ( deaf ) C J Bromhead ( Lincoln ) ( deaf ) James Wallworth Dawson(Bradford) W P Harris ( Belfast ) Robert Semple ( Paisley ) ( deaf ) A M Sleight ( Brighton ) |
| 5 | The other new Council members were appointed to the portfolios of Justice , Agriculture , Labour and Social Development , and at the Ministries-delegate for Economy , Territorial Administration , Health and Women 's Development . |
| 6 | During December 1989 new heads were appointed to the NVA , the Navy and the Air Force . |
| 7 | In a decree issued by King Hussein on Jan. 1 , a leading Palestinian politician , Taher al-Masri , replaced Marwan al-Qasem as the Jordanian Foreign Affairs Minister , and members of the Moslem Brotherhood were appointed to the Religious Affairs , Health , Education , Justice and Social Development ministries . |
| 8 | Members of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , whose forces took Addis Ababa in May [ see pp. 38174-75 ] , were appointed to the Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries ( Seyoum Mesfin , who had been named as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991 , being confirmed in the latter post ) . |
| 9 | A number of new ministers were appointed to the Cabinet on Sept. 25 : Abdol Wahed Sorabi ( Commerce ) ; Mohammad Yaqub Lali ( Mines and Industries ) ; Mawlawi Ahmed Nazar Balkhi ( Social Affairs ) ; Sayd Eshaq Gowhari ( Revival and Rural Development ) ; and Yaqub Barakzai ( Public Health ) . |
| 10 | Two representatives were appointed to the Stoddard Templeton Sales Force in November , one month before the retiral of two long serving salesmen . |
| 11 | In July , for example , five Catholics were appointed to the Privy Council . |
| 12 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 13 | He was appointed to the post of ‘ Deputy Secretary-General of Information ’ in the Vichy regime but resigned in January 1941 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was strong criticism amongst black Labour Party members last year when no black was appointed to the front bench in that year 's reshuffle and again when Mr Alistair Darling , the MP for Edinburgh Central , was given the race relations brief . |
| 16 | A Canadian was appointed to the Press Office , followed in 1960 by Heseltine , a career civil servant from Western Australia , who had spent the previous four years as private secretary to Robert Menzies . |
| 17 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 18 | Some months after the murder of Henry of Almain at Viterbo on 13 March 1271 , his father was appointed to the same offices for a term of three years . |
| 19 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Khmail , jailed for four years for intifada-related offences , was appointed to the Palestinian side by Mr Faisal al Husseini , delegation head , according to Israeli reports . |
| 22 | After 18 months in the post , Worswick was appointed to the LGC . |
| 23 | I was appointed to the Land Utilisation Branch . |
| 24 | On 18 November 1898 Miss Smart was appointed to the Girls ' School at £50 rising to £60 per annum , and Miss Townsend appointed Certificated Assistant at £65 , rising to £75 per annum . |
| 25 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 26 | By 1592 , through the influence of many eminent intellectuals and men of power he was appointed to the prestigious post of professor of mathematics at the University of Padua , where his inaugural lecture was delivered in the Great Hall to an immense audience . |
| 27 | Habari ya Mwezi was the first in East Africa to employ an African editor : Samwil Sehoza was appointed to the post in 1908 . |
| 28 | Sir Michael Edwardes was appointed to the task of rescuing the company in 1977 and in the next five years attempted to reduce excessive centralisation in the company and to improve efficiency , which involved many plant closures and redundancies . |
| 29 | Also at the meeting , Zhao Ziyang , who had held the post of Premier temporarily since the downfall of Hu Yaobang , was appointed to the position of Party General Secretary . |
| 30 | 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 . |