Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [was/were] [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 | In 1885 she was appointed lecturer in psychology at Westfield College , London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1876 he was appointed rector of Barnes , a suburb of London . |
| 6 | In 1885 he was elected MP for Merionethshire . |
| 7 | In 1776 he was made lieutenant-colonel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He joined the group planning a Puritan colony and in March 1630 he was named secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Company . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1867 he was appointed professor of dogmatic and moral theology at Maynooth , in 1878 vice-president , and in 1880 president . |
| 14 | In 1985 he was made Chairman of the Bovis Construction Group and appointed to the P&O SN Co Main Board . |
| 15 | In 1780 he was elected MP for Southwark , defeating Henry Thrale and thereby provoking the contempt of Dr Samuel Johnson [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now these scientists are being asked to bear another burden : nearly 2,000 who were promised university positions may now find themselves jobless because the universities do not want them . |
| 18 | In 1892 she was appointed vice-consul in Okoyong , presiding over the native court , and later ( 1905 ) vice-president of Ikot Obong native court . |
| 19 | By the age of 10 she was playing whist , and two years later , while holidaying with an uncle in the Netherlands , she picked up bridge . |
| 20 | In September 1991 we were given letters saying that the school was organising a ski trip to Austria on the second of April 1992 . |
| 21 | The outbreak of war with England gave him his great chance and on 7 December 1775 he was commissioned lieutenant in what was soon to become the US Navy . |
| 22 | In 1678 he was chosen deputy governor and in the following year was elected governor of the colony . |
| 23 | Under Richard III he was made receiver of the Lancaster lands formerly held by Elizabeth Woodville and was granted the farm of valuable land within the duchy . |
| 24 | Under Richard III he was made receiver of the Lancaster lands formerly held by Elizabeth Woodville and was granted the farm of valuable land within the duchy . |
| 25 | In 1929 he was appointed lecturer at New College , Oxford . |
| 26 | In 1929 he was elected FRS and in 1931 became professor of bacteriology at London University . |
| 27 | In 1924 he was describing Lewis 's anthropologically influenced ‘ Mr Zagreus and the Split-Man ’ as ‘ a masterpiece ’ ; the following year Eliot and Lewis discussed Perry and Harrison . |
| 28 | Finally in 1979 he was appointed department manager of the Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd . |
| 29 | In January , 1725 he was appointed Governor of Madras Presidency , one of the most influential and coveted posts in all of the lands under British rule . |
| 30 | In 1898 he was appointed professor of Greek at University College , Cardiff , moving to Manchester University as Hulme professor of Greek in 1908 . |