Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wykeham was arrested , deprived of his temporalities , and accused of corruption when he was Keeper of the privy Seal and Chancellor before 1371 , while de la Mare was arrested and imprisoned in Nottingham Castle . |
| 2 | He was architect of the British pavilion at the Paris exhibition of 1937 , and was involved in designing displays and selecting exhibits under the chairmanship of Frank Pick [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Based in Vienna , he was controller of the ultrasensitive Balkan sector — covering Austria , Yugoslavia and Greece . |
| 4 | He was editor of the Scottish Historical Review from 1972-77 . |
| 5 | In the early 1970s he was editor of the Provisional republican newspaper in the north , Republican News . |
| 6 | We had met a year or two before when he was secretary of the Canadian Mayors ' Federation . |
| 7 | Boris Yeltsin built his early popular reputation on his castigating of bureaucratic privilege while he was secretary of the Communist Party in Moscow ( Jozsa , 1990 , pp. 23–9 ) . |
| 8 | Chairman of the Youth Hostels Trust , a member of the Council for National Parks and the Society of Sussex Downsmen , he was secretary of the Common Land Forum from 1983 to 1986 . |
| 9 | He was secretary of the Brazilian bishops ' conference , so he had clearly been in a position , like Jose , this bloke , to test the feeling of people in a wide area . |
| 10 | Due either to age or lack of an appropriate patron , he held no central office again until 1668–9 , when he was secretary to the public accounts committee , the body charged with investigating whether financial malpractice had contributed to the naval disaster at the end of the second Dutch war . |
| 11 | He was nephew to the unfortunate Admiral John Byng [ q.v. ] , who was executed in 1757 . |
| 12 | Richard Molesworth 's social rank ( he was nephew of the seventh Viscount Molesworth ) did not compensate in her mother 's eyes for the dangers of marrying a man with a violent temper ( supposedly caused by a head wound incurred in the Crimean war ) . |
| 13 | He was head of the Military Intelligence Service ( MIS ) until his fall from grace in 1983 , when it was thought that Ne Win , Burma 's autocratic ruler since 1962 , perceived him as a threat to his leadership . |
| 14 | During the 1930s he led the team which successfully decrypted all Comintern radio traffic with England , and by 1939 he was head of the military section at the Government Code and Cypher School . |
| 15 | I did not realise that he was head of the English Department . |
| 16 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 17 | From 1982 to 1990 he was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . |
| 18 | He was chairman of the economic and development subcommittee until 1986 and served on six committees in all . |
| 19 | He was chairman of the International Maritime Bureau ( of the International Chamber of Commerce ) from 1981 to 1985 . |
| 20 | He was also a director of Hutchinsons Engineering and from 1968 to 1970 he was chairman of the International Standards Organisation Technical Committee . |
| 21 | His name was Heinrich Kost , and he was Chairman of the German Coal Board . |
| 22 | While he wrote on many aspects of neurology and psychiatry ( which he regarded as ‘ neurology without physical signs ’ ) his major research interest was in multiple sclerosis and he was chairman of the medical panel of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society and honorary clinical adviser to the MRC Demyelinating Diseases Unit . |
| 23 | Already , he is arguably the most powerful elected black politician in American history ( he was chairman of the 1988 presidential campaign of his unelected peer , Jesse Jackson ) . |
| 24 | A devoted churchman , he was chairman of the local Congregational Church Board . |
| 25 | Younger was in a very exposed position , for he was Chairman of the National Union Executive responsible for carrying out its decisions , as well as Party Chairman and so committed to the leader and the coalition . |
| 26 | He was the Technical Editor of The Embalmer from 1982 to 1986 , he was Chairman of the National Education Committee in 1991–92 and is an Accredited Tutor . |
| 27 | He was chairman of the National Farmers ' Union branch , 1987–89 , chairman of the NFU county cereals and livestock committee 1986–88 and a representative in London and Brussels . |
| 28 | He was chairman of the Tory backbench environment committee . |
| 29 | From 1844 to 1846 he was chairman of the provisional committee formed to build one , and he presided over the board of the Cornwall Railway in 1846–50 . |
| 30 | For more than two years , he was chairman of the Czechoslovak parliament , overseeing the slow and often painful march to democracy . |