Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units . |
| 2 | In 1972 he was appointed chief executive ( second permanent secretary ) to set up the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment and held that position until his appointment as chairman of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations in 1974 , which he held until 1978 . |
| 3 | In 1972 he was appointed Honorary President of the Danish Cricket Association and later was most happy and proud to accept the MCC 's invitation to become an Honorary Life Member . |
| 4 | In January 1884 he became senior mathematics master at Blairlodge School , Stirlingshire ; in January 1885 he was appointed mathematical master ( later head of mathematics ) at King Edward 's High School , Birmingham , where he remained until his retirement in March 1920 . |
| 5 | In 1985 he was appointed divisional controller of Guinness Brewing Worldwide ; in 1987 group controller of Guinness PLC ; and also in 1987 director of business development of United Distillers . |
| 6 | In 1985 he was made Head Gardener of Killerton , an arboretum famous for its rare trees and shrubs . |
| 7 | In 1472 he was given joint command of an armed force sent to sea to resist the king 's enemies . |
| 8 | In 1894 she was appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on secondary education under James ( later Viscount ) Bryce [ q.v. ] to investigate girls ' education in Devon . |
| 9 | Following Iraq 's defeat in February 1991 there was intensified diplomatic activity by the EC , UN and United States on the Cyprus problem . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister , Ingvar Carlsson , who was asked on Feb. 19 to form a new government , on Feb. 23 announced details of a more moderate economic package acceptable to most parties , and on Feb. 26 he was reappointed Prime Minister at the head of a new Social Democratic government . |
| 11 | By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine . |
| 12 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 13 | In March 1250 he was appointed Chief justice of ‘ all the forests of England on both sides of the Trent ’ , so that the forest administration was once again united under a single head . |
| 14 | On 4 March 1250 he was made chief justice of the forest on both sides of the Trent , an office which he exercised for two and a half years until 25 October 1252 . |
| 15 | In 1980 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Calabar , Nigeria , is now a Fellow at London University and takes creative writing groups at Goldsmiths College . |
| 16 | By September 1940 he was taking British survival for granted and predicting American intervention . |
| 17 | In 1836 he was appointed resident engineer , under Edward Woods and Henry Booth [ q.v. ] , of the Liverpool–Newton Bridge section of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , with responsibility for the maintenance of the permanent way , bridges , stations , and the winding engines for the steeply graded tunnel sections at Edge Hill , as well as for the replacement of the original rails which were far too light to carry heavy traffic . |
| 18 | In 1968 he joined the Catholic Missionary Society and in 1975 he was appointed assistant priest at Muswell Hill . |
| 19 | After its passage in 1833 he was appointed resident engineer for the northern section of the line . |
| 20 | From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees . |
| 21 | In 1904 he was appointed assistant carriage and wagon superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and in 1905 transferred to the Great Northern Railway in Doncaster as carriage and wagon superintendent . |
| 22 | The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine . |
| 23 | In 1813 he was appointed assistant surgeon in the second battalion of the 89th Regiment of Foot ( ‘ Blayney 's Bloodhounds ’ ) and served in Canada for the remainder of the American war of 1812–14 . |
| 24 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 25 | In 1909 he was appointed senior lecturer in inorganic and physical chemistry at the University of Manchester , where he succeeded W. H. Perkin [ q.v. ] as professor of organic chemistry in 1913 and became Sir Samuel Hall professor of inorganic and physical chemistry and director of the laboratories in 1922 , appointments which show his remarkable versatility . |
| 26 | By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal . |
| 27 | In 1884 he was appointed medical officer of health for Nottingham . |
| 28 | In 1884 he was made honorary LLD at Edinburgh University and an honorary member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York . |
| 29 | In 1962 he was appointed clinical subdean and played a major part in revising the medical curriculum . |
| 30 | In 1902 he was appointed associate professor of railway engineering at the University of Liverpool , and from 1908 to 1915 he acted as chairman of the faculty of engineering . |