Example sentences of "[num] she [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1989 she was elected Foreign Member ofthe Royal Swedish Academy of Science . |
| 4 | In June 1965 she was appointed Vice Principal of Howard Institute , the first woman to hold the position . |
| 5 | In 1906 she was appointed assistant lecturer in the chemistry department of Manchester University , the first woman to hold a staff position in that department . |