Example sentences of "he [be] elect a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1738 , having been proposed by Sir Hans Sloane and other eminent scientists of the day . |
| 2 | In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and later , from 1976 to 1977 , he served as President of the Cambrian Archaelogical Association . |
| 3 | He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and an honorary Fellow of Jesus in 1980 ; won the British Biochemical Society 's CIBA Medal and Prize for outstanding research in 1973 , and the Royal Society 's Copley Medal in 1981 . |
| 4 | He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , and had powerful support from politicians and writers . |
| 5 | In 1756 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and he continued his temperature recordings , contributing to its journal on three occasions . |
| 6 | He was elected a member of the Aeronautical Society in 1868 , and with his prize money erected a building seventy feet long in which to continue his experiments , but his sight began to fail and he was unable to make any further progress . |
| 7 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1845 . |
| 8 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1859 and his paper ‘ On Machinery for the Preparing and Spinning of Cotton ’ was published in their Proceedings in 1866 . |
| 9 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and served on its council ( 1921–3 ) . |
| 10 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 11 | In 1835 he was one of the founder-members of the Institute ( later Royal Institute ) of British Architects , from 1836 to 1843 he was one of the joint honorary secretaries , and in 1850–1 he was elected a vice-president . |
| 12 | For this invention , and his own temperature observations , he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1792 . |
| 13 | He was elected a member of the Institutions of Civil Engineers ( 1829 ) and Mechanical Engineers ( 1858 ) , and a fellow of the Geological Society ( 1843 ) . |
| 14 | Leading dissident merchants , he was elected a director of the company in 1647 , gaining a majority for a ‘ free well-regulated trade ’ and an expansive policy including colonization , voyages to the Far East , incorporation of the West African trade , and compensation from the Dutch for the interlopers ( 1649–50 ) . |
| 15 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892 , and a member of the Royal Institution in 1897 . |
| 16 | He was elected a fellow of the Geological Society ( 1828 ) and the Royal Society ( 1840 ) ; he joined the Royal Geographical Society on its foundation in 1830 . |
| 17 | He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1825 . |
| 18 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 19 | He was elected a member of the Society for the Promotion of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce in 1760 , serving from 1763 to 1778 as the joint chairman of the committee on mechanics , and taking a leading part in its deliberations on such subjects as agricultural machinery , ships , and textiles . |
| 20 | In 1764 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , but does not seem to have been a very active member of that body . |
| 21 | He remained there till 1730 when he was elected a fellow of Wadham . |
| 22 | In 1915 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 23 | In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers . |
| 24 | Educated at the Nonconformist Bruce Castle School , in 1848 he was elected a pensioner of Jesus College , Cambridge ; he was a senior wrangler in 1852 . |
| 25 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 26 | He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in July 1955 . |
| 27 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1888 , and was awarded its Royal medal in 1891 . |
| 28 | He was elected a director of the rapidly expanding Company in 1767 , and was appointed deputy chairman the following year . |
| 29 | On 19 April of that year he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society . |
| 30 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |