Example sentences of "and was [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 2 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 3 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 4 | Wounded in action , he was twice mentioned in dispatches , was awarded the MC ( June 1916 ) , and was appointed to the DSO ( June 1918 ) . |
| 5 | He received an honorary DCL ( Durham ) in 1908 , was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1909 , was knighted for his Royal Society work in 1912 , and was appointed to the premier diocesan chancellorship , London , in the same year . |
| 6 | In 1932 he chaired a committee of enquiry on the Post Office and was appointed to the BBC board of governors , and in 1935 he became BBC chairman . |
| 7 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 8 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 9 | Born in 1948 , Brendan O'Neill was appointed managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide in February 1993 , and was appointed to the main board in April 1993 . |
| 10 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 11 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 12 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 13 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 14 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 15 | John 's youngest son , Azariah , backed Monmouth in the rebellion and was banished to the West Indies , where he became a sugar planter . |
| 16 | Alexander Ferguson was born deaf in Dundee , and was sent to the Edinburgh Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 17 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 18 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 19 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | He joined the right-wing Fine Gael party in the Irish Republic and was elected to the Dail for the Dublin West constituency . |
| 21 | He held the chair of mathematics at Pavia , taught in Paris , was director of optics in Louis XV 's ministry of marine , ran an observatory in Milan , and was elected to the Royal Society in London and the French Academy of Science in Paris . |
| 22 | He joined the National Art-Collections Fund and was elected to the executive committee in 1912 . |
| 23 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |
| 24 | Born into a miner 's family in Gallarta in the Basque region in 1895 , she was a founder member of the Spanish Communist Party ( Partido Comunista de España — PCE ) in 1920 and was elected to the Cortes in 1936 , representing Asturias . |
| 25 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 26 | It is administered by a Trust and was bequeathed to the University ‘ for the study and encouragement of art and music ’ . |
| 27 | His conclusion was that the field increased with depth and was related to the Earth 's core according to the inverse cube law . |
| 28 | Bulmer ( 1987 ) observes that the first official use of the term was in 1957 and was related to the field of mental illness . |
| 29 | The total length of the oesophagus , measured by the location of the distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter was similar in all patients ; however , the location of the squamous columnar junction extended more proximally and was related to the increasing severity of endoscopic oesophagitis . |
| 30 | The object of this latest project is Palermo Cathedral 's Chiaramonte crucifix , which dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and was given to the cathedral in 1311 by Manfredo Chiaramonte . |