Example sentences of "she was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was secretary to the Conservative agent in Darlington for 17 years . |
| 2 | She was secretary of the local Red Cross for many years and on retirement was made an honorary life member and awarded a badge of honour . |
| 3 | She sat and held her breath , and felt that she could hear the trees growing around her and that she was part of the same quiet measured progress , in a world devoid of people . |
| 4 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 5 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 6 | The decision created ripples throughout California , Joanne is a computer expert , she was head of the technical division at the California state lottery until her firing earlier this year after a period of sick leave . |
| 7 | She was matron of the large Dufferin Hospital which was bombed on Christmas Day , and in fear eighty of her Burmese nurses fled , leaving her with two English sisters , and a few good Anglo-Indian nurses . |
| 8 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 9 | She was president of the Genetical Society in 1936 . |
| 10 | In Hampstead she was president of the local committee of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . |