Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 2 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 3 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 4 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 5 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 6 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 7 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |