Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter part of 1943 I was appointed Archdeacon of Rangoon , in which capacity I was enabled to visit groups of Anglo-Burman Anglicans and others who had settled in various Indian centres . |
| 2 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 3 | In 1885 she was appointed lecturer in psychology at Westfield College , London . |
| 4 | when you think about it , it 's wrong you 're paying tax on your wages at source and then you go to the shops and you 've got to pay tax on your goods again |
| 5 | She made it clear she was making hay while the sun shone . |
| 6 | It was clear she was blaming Paula bitterly for the interrupted afternoon and her boss 's drastic change of mood . |
| 7 | During a fleeting unrestricted period in 1985 she was named co-president of the United Democratic Front , the mainstream anti-apartheid organisation inside South Africa . |
| 8 | 2 You are selling cars ; you have gone out to look at a customer 's part exchange . |
| 9 | I was annoyed really to hear Harry speak and I I do n't normally get annoyed with my friend Harry from Loughborough er , but I was annoyed to hear him talk of disaster if there is any disaster involved in this we are averting disaster today and this is a significant decision of the county council to move forward . |
| 10 | The emphasis of their tours was on education and recreation for students and by the 1890s they were offering cruises to Norway for eight guineas . |
| 11 | ‘ And , ’ he obliged , after a moment , ‘ I 'm afraid they 're having trouble in locating the replacement part needed to get it going again . ’ |
| 12 | Despite this he was teaching Helen a little rhyme . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He genuinely felt that by doing this he was helping others , and something good might come out of his suffering . ’ |
| 14 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
| 15 | In 1876 he was appointed rector of Barnes , a suburb of London . |
| 16 | The easier it is to use courts or , even better , private agreements to sort out disputes between creditors and shareholders while the firm continues to operate , the lower the costs will be , and the greater the incentive to skate closer to the edge . |
| 17 | It is conceivable that a partnership could be used as the buy-out vehicle where the managers wish to acquire the shares in Target rather than its business and assets , on the principle that the fewer the corporate layers in the structure , the easier it is to fund borrowings and extract profits . |
| 18 | The more energy you get , the easier it is to beat opponents . |
| 19 | In 1885 he was elected MP for Merionethshire . |
| 20 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 21 | In 1776 he was made lieutenant-colonel . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He joined the group planning a Puritan colony and in March 1630 he was named secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Company . |
| 24 | Morice was admitted to the strongly Calvinist Middle Temple in 1558 and in 1565 he was sharing chambers with his future colleague in the Commons , Edward Lewkenor . |
| 25 | In April 1372 he was appointed Lieutenant in Aquitaine and assembled a fleet to take money and reinforcements to the garrisons there , which were hard pressed by the French . |
| 26 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 27 | In 1867 he was appointed professor of dogmatic and moral theology at Maynooth , in 1878 vice-president , and in 1880 president . |
| 28 | In 1985 he was made Chairman of the Bovis Construction Group and appointed to the P&O SN Co Main Board . |
| 29 | In 1780 he was elected MP for Southwark , defeating Henry Thrale and thereby provoking the contempt of Dr Samuel Johnson [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | His interest in education was reflected in his active role in founding University College , Liverpool , in 1881 : when it became the University of Liverpool in 1903 he was elected pro-chancellor . |