Example sentences of "[adj] he [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this he was managing director of the International region of United Distillers from January 1991 . |
| 2 | Despite this he was re-elected governor annually until the charter was revoked and the colony subsumed into the dominion of New England in 1686 . |
| 3 | In London he became a member of the congregation of J. Baldwin Brown , a famous Congregational preacher in Brixton , and in 1876 he was ordained minister at the Congregational church in Shipley , near Bradford . |
| 4 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 5 | Between 1882 and 1885 he was British Chaplain in Switzerland , returning to become Vicar of Brompton Regis in Somerset . |
| 6 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 7 | At twenty-one he was two years older than Anthony . |
| 8 | On 8th December , 1985 he was consecrated bishop in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Hume , as has special responsibility as area bishop for Central London . |
| 9 | A devout Christian , Frumentius visited Alexandria , where in about AD 330 he was consecrated Bishop by the Patriarch Athanasius . |
| 10 | Between 1985–87 he was general manager at The Dorchester , until the company relinquished its management of the property . |
| 11 | In 1877 he was ordained priest and in 1878 took up his ministry in Wray-on-Windermere . |
| 12 | From 1904 he was Connexional Evangelist and conducted a series of missions all over Ireland . |
| 13 | In 1917 he was consecrated archbishop and sent to Munich as nuncio , or papal ambassador , where he was considerably shaken by first-hand experience of a Bolshevik revolution . |
| 14 | From 1 January 1377 he was general receiver and keeper of the Privy Seal to the Black Prince 's young son , Richard , prince of Wales , and on the latter 's accession to the throne , Fordham at once ( on 26 June 1377 ) became keeper of the king 's Privy Seal . |
| 15 | I was quite suprised how good he was that year … back heeling the ball to set up at least 2 goals … and the drag back and turn for a goal vs Wimbledon ( I think ) ! ! |
| 16 | ( c. 1230–1309 ) , military architect , is first recorded as Master James , son of Master John cementarius , working in 1261 with his father on the castle of Yverdon for Peter of Savoy , Earl of Richmond [ q.v. ] ; by 1265 he was chief master mason . |
| 17 | In 1952 he was electrical engineering manager , HM Dockyard Devonport , and in 1957 superintending electrical engineer on Gibraltar . |
| 18 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |
| 19 | From 1870 to 1873 he was outside manager at G. Forrester & Company 's Vauxhall foundry , Liverpool , where he had charge of repairs to vessels and the fitting out of new ships . |
| 20 | Between 1973 and 1981 he was general manager at the Golf View Hotel in Nairn , during which time its turnover increased by 800% . |
| 21 | From 1979 to 1981 he was Senior Registrar in Medicine at the Royal United Hospital in Bath and during that time carried out research into platelet function in diabetes and hyperlipoproteinaemic states . |
| 22 | In 1910 and 1911 he was mechanical engineer for the Board of Trade at the British pavilions at the Brussels and Turin exhibitions . |
| 23 | In 1958 he was chief coach to the British team which produced our best post-war results in the European championships , with gold medals from the likes of Ian Black and Judy Grinham , and two years later he was appointed manager of the British Swimming team for the Olympics in Rome . |
| 24 | ‘ I told him that as far as I was concerned he was junior shit of all time . |
| 25 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 26 | Between 1984 and 1987 he was managing director of , a family owned business which was floated on the USM in 1985 and sold to in 1986 . |
| 27 | In 1861 he was high sheriff of Surrey and served as a JP . |
| 28 | He returned to England to gain his doctorate from London University , and from 1923 to 1935 he was Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of British Columbia . |
| 29 | From 1977 to 1980 he was commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 30 | In 1870 he was appointed secretary to the royal commission on Friendly and Benefit Building Societies , and from 1874 until 1891 he was chief registrar of Friendly Societies — years he described as ‘ the happiest of my life ’ . |