Example sentences of "[num] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1357 he is required by statute to entrust the administration of the property to the near relations of the deceased . |
| 2 | In 1895 he was made a director of the Bank of England , becoming deputy governor in 1911 and governor in 1913 . |
| 3 | In 1895 he was appointed to succeed William Adams [ q.v. ] as locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway , where he had new and well-equipped locomotive workshops built in Eastleigh to replace the existing inadequate facilities in Nine Elms in London . |
| 4 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 5 | In 1876 he was appointed rector of Barnes , a suburb of London . |
| 6 | In 1972 he was appointed chief executive ( second permanent secretary ) to set up the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment and held that position until his appointment as chairman of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations in 1974 , which he held until 1978 . |
| 7 | In 1972 he was appointed Honorary President of the Danish Cricket Association and later was most happy and proud to accept the MCC 's invitation to become an Honorary Life Member . |
| 8 | In 1972 he was appointed assistant Private Secretary to The Queen ; in 1982 he was given a knighthood , and on the retirement of Lord Moore of Wolvercote in 1986 , he was appointed Private Secretary to The Queen , and Keeper of The Queen 's Archives . |
| 9 | Otto Wagner , along with Klimt major Secession leader , had a professorial appointment from 1894 at Vienna 's Academy of Fine Arts ; in the late 1890s he was commissioned to build local railway stations . |
| 10 | He was director in Shillong , Simla , and Calcutta ; then in 1933 he was appointed surveyor-general and held this position until his retirement in 1937 . |
| 11 | In 1933 he was hired by Warner Brothers to make several short comedies , but died of a heart attack after a celebration party . |
| 12 | In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers . |
| 13 | At the end of his pupillage in 1872 he was sent to the United States to study developments in railways and steel-making , and on his return became assistant manager of the steelworks at Crewe . |
| 14 | In 1872 he was crowned at Aksum as John IV . |
| 15 | But by 1872 he was working with The Northern Echo . |
| 16 | From 1867 to 1872 he was articled to the architect Walter Scott of Liverpool . |
| 17 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |
| 18 | In January 1884 he became senior mathematics master at Blairlodge School , Stirlingshire ; in January 1885 he was appointed mathematical master ( later head of mathematics ) at King Edward 's High School , Birmingham , where he remained until his retirement in March 1920 . |
| 19 | In August 1885 he was selected , over the heads of two more senior officers , to be the RIC 's new inspector-general . |
| 20 | In 1885 he was elected MP for Merionethshire . |
| 21 | In June 1881 he was recalled to Dublin and put in charge of the RIC 's crime division , with the task of both preventing and solving politically inspired crime . |
| 22 | In 1881 he was made a member , the youngest , of a royal commission on technical education , chaired by ( Sir ) Bernhard Samuelson [ q.v. ] and inspired by the junior minister charged by W. E. Gladstone with education , A. J. Mundella [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | During the autumn of 1479 he was appointed in addition to the office of master of the choristers , and he continued to occupy both appointments until his departure between 1 October 1484 and 30 September 1485 . |
| 24 | On 5 January 1479 he was entered on the payroll , and on 13 February formally admitted , as a lay clerk of the choir of St George 's chapel , Windsor . |
| 25 | In August 1767 he was granted a coat of arms with the motto ‘ Safely , quickly and pleasantly ’ and married Rachel , widow of William Westley of Shepton Mallet , Somerset , and daughter of Simon and Frances Warlock of Antigua and Westminster . |
| 26 | In 1776 he was made lieutenant-colonel . |
| 27 | Early in 1365 he was granted the post of master mason to Wells Cathedral , apparently through the influence of William of Wykeham [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | On 10 October 1366 he was granted £6 13s. 4d. a year for life on account of his long service and a small house by the palace for keeping his tools and moulds , and in 1368 and 1370 he had grants of the pesage of wools at Queenborough , Kent . |
| 29 | In return for financial help to King Afonso V he was renaturalized as a Portuguese subject in August 1479 and given trading privileges . |
| 30 | In December 1630 he was silenced by William Laud [ q.v. ] for not catechizing according to the form laid down in the Prayer Book , and for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus . |