Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1929 Humphrys was appointed high commissioner ( from 1932 first British ambassador ) to the British mandated state of Iraq , where he stayed for six years . |
| 2 | In 1894 Marks was appointed consulting engineer to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and he built another cliff railway in Budapest , for which he was rewarded with a knighthood of the Ducal Order of Ernest . |
| 3 | In 1877 Schnadhorst was appointed part-time secretary of the newly formed National Liberal Federation , while retaining his post with the Birmingham Liberal Association . |
| 4 | By May of 1184 Barbarossa was taking further steps against southern Italy , consolidating his hold by negotiation with the new pope , Lucius III . |
| 5 | At the end of 1981 BNFL was holding 14.5 tonnes of separated plutonium at Sellafield ( the government has promised to update the tally as far as March 1983 and will report to parliament in June ) . |
| 6 | A special session of the National Council gave the Popular Front a number of ministerial positions in a new coalition government , and on May 18 Kambarov was appointed acting President pending new elections . |
| 7 | In June 1948 France was promised various limits by America and Britain on German independence : industrial restrictions would remain , an ‘ International Authority ’ was established to control the coal and steel resources of the Ruhr valley — Germany 's industrial heartland — and a Military Security Board was set up to guarantee disarmament . |
| 8 | By a quarter to five Kathleen was having serious doubts about her sanity . |
| 9 | By 1800 Spain was producing more wheat at steadier prices than at any time since the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | In 1875 Stuart was elected first professor of mechanism and applied mechanics at Cambridge , and pioneered the new courses . |
| 11 | In 1942 McLachlan was appointed public analyst for Berkshire and the City of Oxford , and in partnership with F.A . |
| 12 | In 1901 Bolton was appointed first headmaster of the new day school at the Architectural Association . |
| 13 | In 1839 Little was elected assistant physician at the London Hospital . |
| 14 | In 1927 Pillai was appointed assistant collector of customs in Madras and two years later became deputy director of commercial Intelligence in Calcutta . |
| 15 | By 1815 Britain was exporting 4 yards of cotton cloth for every 3 used at home , and between 1794 – 6 and 1804 – 6 cotton goods accounted for 84 per cent of the increase in manufactured exports . |
| 16 | Already in 1915 Pound was making this mistake about the rivers , for in ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which he published in that year , he declares : |
| 17 | In 1915 Townsend was appointed assistant director of the London county council 's civic survey , a scheme to employ architects deprived of work by the war in the collection of social and physical data on the structure of the city . |