Example sentences of "was appoint [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 2 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 3 | First priority , however , was to appoint a head office team . |
| 4 | One of the first decisions of the reformed Parliament elected in 1833 was to appoint a Royal Commission staffed ‘ by eager young intellectuals of Whig opinions ’ to inquire into the municipal corporations ( Webb and Webb 1963 : 141 ) . |
| 5 | S J Ahearne ( 53 ) was appointed a managing director on 21 March 1992 . |
| 6 | R F Chase ( 49 ) was appointed a managing director on 21 March 1992 . |
| 7 | B K Sanderson ( 52 ) was appointed a managing director on 17 April 1992 . |
| 8 | Before the year was over a number of significant changes had occurred : a new director ( Dr B. B. Lloyd ) arrived ; London gave notice that it intended to stop bulk entry to the external system ; and D. R. A. Mobbs was appointed a principal lecturer in biology . |
| 9 | In 1920 he was appointed a superintending chemist and exercised his encyclopaedic knowledge of organic chemistry , and his administrative abilities , to organize the considerable amount of new work arising from the Safeguarding of Industries Act of 1921 and from new silk duties in 1926 , each case involving many thousands of samples . |
| 10 | In Michaelmas term 1264 he was appointed a junior justice of the Common Bench and remained a justice of the court till the end of Trinity term 1265 . |
| 11 | Dr K N Horn ( 49 ) was appointed a non-executive director of BP on 21 March 1992 . |
| 12 | In 1868 he was appointed a resident engineer on the Windsor and Minneapolis Railway in Nova Scotia . |
| 13 | This week Robin Nash , responsible for sitcoms including Terry and June , was appointed the new head of comedy at BBC television . |
| 14 | In another move yesterday which further highlighted the government 's problems , Sirkka Hamalainen was appointed the new president of the Bank of Finland . |
| 15 | At the end of 1977 , to confirm the Securitate 's control over the pits , the Party secretary in charge of security matters , Vasile Patilineţ , was appointed the new Minister of Mines . |
| 16 | Ricardo Murialdo was appointed the new Navy Commander . |
| 17 | Derek Keys was appointed the new Minister of Finance , but retained the Trade and Industry portfolio , and continued to have the specific responsibility for economic co-ordination . |
| 18 | In 1975 Anderson was appointed the first EEC delegate in Southern Africa , responsible for the EEC Commission 's relations with Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 19 | Admiral Sir David Luce was appointed the first tri-Service C-in-C , Far East , in November 1962 . |
| 20 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 21 | Andrew Fuller was appointed the first secretary , and Reynold Hogg the treasurer , with Carey , Ryland and Sutcliff making up the rest of the executive committee . |
| 22 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 23 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 24 | He took the natural sciences tripos in 1877 with first-class honours , and was appointed an assistant demonstrator . |
| 25 | He was appointed an official painter to the French Army in 1951 , the mounted branches always being favourite subjects ( it was as a Horse Artillery NCO that he was mobilised in 1939 ) . |
| 26 | His grandson Edmund [ q.v. ] became Baron Hammond and was appointed an honorary brother of Hull Trinity House , thus renewing the family link with this institution . |
| 27 | In 1975 , he helped to found a new anti-EEC party , Scottish Conservatives Against the Treaty of Rome , and was appointed an honorary vice-president along with his then fellow Scottish Tory MP , Teddy Taylor , |