Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1678 he was chosen deputy governor and in the following year was elected governor of the colony . |
| 2 | Finally in 1979 he was appointed department manager of the Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 4 | In 1932 he was appointed deputy secretary to the Commerce Department of the Government of India , where he remained until the end of the Raj 15 years later . |
| 5 | In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 . |
| 6 | In 1912 he was appointed London director of the new Johannesburg Art Gallery and also became valuer of pictures and drawings for the Board of the Inland Revenue ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 7 | Within months he found a patron in Governor Lachlan Macquarie [ q.v. ] of New South Wales , who had ambitious plans for public works in the colony , and in 1816 he was appointed government architect , receiving his emancipation in the following year . |
| 8 | His regiment released him again to pass the Staff College in Quetta , and at the start of World War I in 1914 he was made intelligence officer to the Tanga expeditionary force . |
| 9 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 10 | In 1887 he was appointed district surveyor for Charlton , Lee , and Kidbrooke under the Metropolitan board of works and continued in this post under the London county council . |
| 11 | In 1871 he was appointed surgeon dentist in Scotland to Queen Victoria , a post he held until her death in 1901 . |
| 12 | In 1982 he was appointed Parish Priest at St Andrew 's , Cottam , before his retirement from active Parish duties in 1987 . |
| 13 | In 1926 he was made Castle Architect . |
| 14 | In 1931 he was appointed consultant designer to Practical Equipment Ltd. , manufacturers of tubular steel furniture . |
| 15 | Although born and educated in Vienna in 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of Economic Science in London University where he remained until accepting a Chair of Social and Moral Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1950 . |
| 16 | In July 1990 she was appointed Personnel Assistant and in August 1990 Personnel Officer . |
| 17 | Two years later Gloag became assistant in Scots law at Edinburgh University and in February 1905 he was appointed regius professor of law at Glasgow University . |
| 18 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 19 | In 1624 he was elected charter fellow of the newly founded Pembroke College , Oxford , as founder 's kin . |