Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool . |
| 2 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 3 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 4 | In 1885 she was appointed lecturer in psychology at Westfield College , London . |
| 5 | A member of the first Dáil Éireann , 21 January 1919 , she was appointed minister for labour . |
| 6 | In 1889 she was appointed demonstrator in botany at Newnham College , and along with her colleague Marion Greenwood she organized the Balfour laboratory , whose direction she took over in 1899 . |
| 7 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |
| 8 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 9 | We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war . |
| 10 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 11 | It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto . |
| 12 | It was called Bird of Freedom . |
| 13 | When the line came through here , it was built inch by inch through solid rock . |
| 14 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 15 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 16 | He was given benzylpenicillin with cefotaxime and transferred to the intensive care unit , where he subsequently made an uncomplicated recovery . |
| 17 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 18 | Woods worked directly under Michael Balcon when he was appointed head of production in 1947 and was responsible for employing Ardizzone , Bawden , Barnett Freedman , Peake , Minton , Piper , Searle and others , to produce posters and other advertising material . |
| 19 | In 1890 the first edition of his Manual of Hygiene and Public Health appeared , and in 1891 he was appointed lecturer on hygiene and public health at Charing Cross Hospital medical school . |
| 20 | In May 1841 he was appointed lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School . |
| 21 | And it should be remembered that despite a tremendous volume of criticism that heralded the Bennett appointment as the Commandant of Pathfinder Force , it was but a murmur compared with that when he was appointed AOC of No 8 ( PFF ) Group at the tender age of 31 . |
| 22 | He was appointed Keeper of Bécherel in 1368 and of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in 1370 . |
| 23 | Two years later , in the aftermath of the Amsterdam Congress , he was appointed secretary with Aragon of Commune , the monthly publication of the AEAR , the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists . |
| 24 | Mr McDaid was at the centre of another controversy in November 1991 when he was appointed Minister of Defence by the then Taoiseach , Charles Haughey . |
| 25 | In 1886 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal College of Science , London . |
| 26 | In 1898 he was appointed professor of Greek at University College , Cardiff , moving to Manchester University as Hulme professor of Greek in 1908 . |
| 27 | In 1807 he was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the Göttingen Observatory , a post he held until his death . |
| 28 | The most impressive telescope , of 36-feet focus , was provided for Wren 's use when he was appointed professor of astronomy at Gresham College , London , in 1657 . |
| 29 | In December 1918 he was appointed professor of pharmacology at the University of Cape Town . |
| 30 | He was elected FRS in 1934 and in 1937 he was appointed professor of chemistry at University College London . |