Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 2 | In 1885 she was appointed lecturer in psychology at Westfield College , London . |
| 3 | A member of the first Dáil Éireann , 21 January 1919 , she was appointed minister for labour . |
| 4 | In 1889 she was appointed demonstrator in botany at Newnham College , and along with her colleague Marion Greenwood she organized the Balfour laboratory , whose direction she took over in 1899 . |
| 5 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |