Example sentences of "[adj] he be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 2 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 3 | Sir John Throckmorton , Chief Justice of Chester , was accused by the Privy Council of slackness and greed ; and in 1579 he was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for forging a legal document . |
| 4 | As he was not destitute he was charged 10.50 guilders a fortnight , all in . |
| 5 | At 18 he was earning 8s , at 20 he was earning 14s , then in August 1910 , his seven years being served , he was earning 32s . |
| 6 | In 1820 he was granted 190 acres of land on the waterfront in a location which was , at that time , outside Sydney . |
| 7 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 8 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 9 | Within a year Cotter 's union was accepted by the Board of Trade as having more than 3,600 members and within two he was claiming 15,000 , mostly in Liverpool but also in Southampton , though a more likely figure was about 9,000 . |
| 10 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 11 | He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine . |
| 12 | In March 1679 he was appointed one of the five commissioners who replaced Danby at the Treasury , an appointment he held until his death . |
| 13 | By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ . |
| 14 | At 18 he was earning 8s , at 20 he was earning 14s , then in August 1910 , his seven years being served , he was earning 32s . |
| 15 | In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties . |
| 16 | In December 1675 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the customs : two years later he was also made a commissioner to enquire into abuses in the mint . |