Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Stephen Fox , who was Member of Parliament for Sarum and served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury for both King Charles II and William 111 , from 1665 until his death in 1716 , bought the copyhold , in 1682 , or thereabouts , of an estate north-west of Corney House ( on the river front of Old Chiswick ) and behind the first Earl of Burlington 's mansion in Chiswick , and in 1691 he also acquired several acres on the west side of Chiswick Lane , where he sited a mansion with gardens , which he came known as Manor Farm House . |
| 2 | Busek , who was Minister of Science and Research in Vranitzky 's government and was seen as coming from the ÖVP 's progressive wing , won 325 votes against 252 for Bernhard Görg , an economist . |
| 3 | Mr. Redwood , who was Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities before the latest Cabinet re-shuffle , is an enthusiastic supporter of public and private partnerships in the rejuvenation of urban areas . |
| 4 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 5 | Who was secretary of state for trade in Mrs Thatcher 's first Cabinet ? |
| 6 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 7 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 8 | Film producer Norma Heyman , who was matron of honour at their wedding in October last year , said : ‘ Elizabeth is n't well at all . |
| 9 | In 1733 , the great riding master Francois Robichon de la Guérinière , who was master of horse to King Louis XV of France , produced his book Ecole de Cavalerie . |
| 10 | John Ellis , who was Under-Secretary of State to William , had one brother who was a Secretary to James and another who was a Catholic bishop . |
| 11 | Rejected manuscripts are often re-submitted to different journals , and Abelson 1 , who was editor of Science for 23 years , found that 85% of such papers , rejected by Science , appeared elsewhere within two years . |
| 12 | Rejected manuscripts are often re-submitted to different journals , and Abelson , who was editor of Science for 23 years , found that 85% of such papers , rejected by Science , appeared elsewhere within two years . |
| 13 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 14 | Alexander Bain 's claims to fame are twofold : first , he patented the automatic electrochemical recording telegraph in 1843 ; second , he is often confused with his more famous contemporary and namesake who was professor of logic at Aberdeen University from 1860 to 1880 . |
| 15 | The first line begins with the man who has justly been termed ‘ the father of modern theology ’ , Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher ( 1768–1834 ) , who was Professor of Theology in Berlin from 1809 ; and leads on to Albrecht Ritschl ( 1822–89 ) , Professor in Göttingen from 1864 , and those who under his influence formed the school of what is now generally known as Liberal Theology . |
| 16 | Well this man something wrong and he er had an appointment with a Girran man who was Professor of medicine in Glasgow , he 'd gone up the ladder you know and finished . |