Example sentences of "be appointed [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman who exploited and ruined my brother will never be appointed guardian to my sister ! ’ |
| 2 | John Glynn of Morval had been appointed Under-Steward to the Duchy of Cornwall during the disturbed days of the Wars of the Roses . |
| 3 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 4 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 5 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 6 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 7 | Sutton abandoned the church on being appointed secretary to the embassy at Vienna in 1697 . |
| 8 | M. Vial , for some years Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Royal School of Lyons , and of Comparative Anatomy at Montpellier , a gentleman well-known for his anatomical skill and knowledge in every part of this Art , is appointed Professor to the College ’ . |
| 9 | In 1639 he was appointed minister to the Dutch church in London , thus becoming a colleague of his stepbrother , Ambrosius Regemorter . |
| 10 | In 1824 Lehzen was appointed governess to the young princess . |
| 11 | Baddam publicized in the Daily Advertiser the full range of experimental philosophy courses which he gave at the London Coffee House , Ludgate Hill , between 11 October 1732 and January 1733 , alternating with Abraham Chovet , a Huguenot anatomy lecturer who was appointed demonstrator to the Barber-Surgeons ' Company in 1734 . |
| 12 | In 1896 he was appointed naturalist to the Fitzgerald expedition to the Andes , and on his return contributed ‘ Notes on the Natural History of the Aconcagua Valley ’ to E. A. Fitzgerald 's The Highest Andes ( 1899 ) . |
| 13 | William Warden was appointed porter to the infirmary ; the regulations stated that he was to have bread and cheese for breakfast . |
| 14 | In 1586 he was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Huntingdon , President of the Council of the North , where ‘ God so blessed his painful preaching and moderate private conference that he converted some of the Roman Catholic priests and many of the laity to the Protestant faith ’ . |
| 15 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 16 | In 1863 he was appointed hydrographer to the Royal Navy in succession to Rear-Admiral John Washington [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |
| 18 | Preece was appointed electrician to the postmaster-general in 1877 and Kempe was subsequently transferred to London on 2 March 1878 to act as his assistant . |
| 19 | In 1952 " Sutcliffe was appointed Secretary to the Church of England " Council for the Deaf in succession to Canon Vernon Jones and the Rev Humphrey Ainger , who died after less than three years in office . |
| 20 | In 1870 he was appointed secretary to the royal commission on Friendly and Benefit Building Societies , and from 1874 until 1891 he was chief registrar of Friendly Societies — years he described as ‘ the happiest of my life ’ . |
| 21 | In 1952 she was appointed secretary to the general manager working first for Trevor Haynes then Bill Proudfoot . |
| 22 | Michael Holdsworth , county secretary of West Sussex , was appointed clerk to the board and Mervyn Hancock , county treasurer for East Sussex was appointed treasurer . |
| 23 | In 1845 Little was appointed physician to the London Hospital , and he held this position until he resigned in 1863 . |
| 24 | Joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science from 1863 to 1878 , he was appointed physician to the West London Hospital in 1864 , lecturer on insanity at St Mary 's Hospital ( 1868–81 ) , professor of medical jurisprudence at University College London ( 1869–79 ) , and was elected FRCP in 1869 . |
| 25 | When he returned to Aberdeen towards the end of 1785 , he was appointed physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary . |
| 26 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 27 | Hamilton Green was appointed deputy leader and Seeram Prashad general secretary ( replacing Ranji Chandisingh , hitherto Deputy Prime Minister , who was appointed ambassador to Moscow ) . |
| 28 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 29 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 30 | The partnership was dissolved in June 1735 when he was appointed goldsmith to Frederick Louis , prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , and moved to Panton Street . |