Example sentences of "[prep] [num] he [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiltman was educated at Charterhouse School , where at the age of thirteen he was offered a place at Oxford University which the family was unable to take up . |
| 2 | When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie . |
| 3 | In 1756 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and he continued his temperature recordings , contributing to its journal on three occasions . |
| 4 | In 1635 he was granted a passport to travel abroad . |
| 5 | In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers . |
| 6 | In 1881 he was made a member , the youngest , of a royal commission on technical education , chaired by ( Sir ) Bernhard Samuelson [ q.v. ] and inspired by the junior minister charged by W. E. Gladstone with education , A. J. Mundella [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | In 1895 he was made a director of the Bank of England , becoming deputy governor in 1911 and governor in 1913 . |
| 8 | In 1963 he was appointed a J.P . |
| 9 | In 1894 he was awarded a London county council scholarship with distinctions , which took him to the Kenmont Gardens Science School ( 1894–7 ) and in 1896 he was awarded an evening exhibition to the Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 10 | In 1828 he was made a knight commander of the Guelphic Order . |
| 11 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
| 12 | In 1649 he was appointed a registrar of military debentures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1920 he was appointed a superintending chemist and exercised his encyclopaedic knowledge of organic chemistry , and his administrative abilities , to organize the considerable amount of new work arising from the Safeguarding of Industries Act of 1921 and from new silk duties in 1926 , each case involving many thousands of samples . |
| 15 | In 1920 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects . |
| 16 | In 1807 he was made a member of the Marylebone Vestry . |
| 17 | However , it should not be forgotten that Molyneux was also a royal servant , and that in securing patronage for his kinsman in 1473 he was receiving a reward appropriate to his position as a leading local member of the king 's household . |
| 18 | However , it should not be forgotten that Molyneux was also a royal servant , and that in securing patronage for his kinsman in 1473 he was receiving a reward appropriate to his position as a leading local member of the king 's household . |
| 19 | He was elected to honorary membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1960 he was made a Commander of the British Empire . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After winning his first two Tour titles in the Piccadilly Medal and the Martini International in 1976 he was to record a further nine victories in the space of the next nine seasons . |
| 22 | In 1884 he was made a JP for London , Westminster , and Middlesex , and in 1889 he became an alderman of Middlesex county council . |
| 23 | Between 1947 and 1953 he was Head of History at Plymouth College , and in 1950 he was awarded a Page Scholarship to travel in the United States . |
| 24 | After working in London hospitals for seven years , in 1897 he became university lecturer in psychology at Cambridge , and in 1902 he was elected a fellow of St John 's College . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1824 he was given a sum of money , and was able to set up his own business as a tea dealer and coffee roaster at 93 Bull Street , Birmingham . |
| 27 | In 1964 he was created a baronet for his outstanding contribution to Scottish business and political life . |
| 28 | In 1909 he was made a KC . |
| 29 | In 1908 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded the society 's gold medal in 1914 . |
| 30 | In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman after breaking into her home , but this was reduced to eight years on appeal . |