Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 2 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 3 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 4 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 5 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 6 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 7 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 8 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 9 | In 1864 , three years after the prince consort 's death , Brown was brought south to Osborne as her groom to give the secluded widow more riding exercise . |
| 10 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 11 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |
| 12 | Hamilton Green was appointed deputy leader and Seeram Prashad general secretary ( replacing Ranji Chandisingh , hitherto Deputy Prime Minister , who was appointed ambassador to Moscow ) . |
| 13 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 14 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 15 | The partnership was dissolved in June 1735 when he was appointed goldsmith to Frederick Louis , prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , and moved to Panton Street . |
| 16 | He was appointed paediatrician to Queen Charlotte 's Maternity Hospital ( 1933 ) , and physician to the Hospital for Sick Children , the Middlesex Hospital , and the British Postgraduate Hospital , Hammersmith ( 1934 ) , where he developed the renowned premature-baby unit in 1947 . |
| 17 | In 1820 Stutchbury was appointed assistant to William Clift [ q.v. ] , conservator of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 18 | In 1901 he became an assistant in the clinical laboratory at St Thomas 's Hospital and in December that year was appointed assistant to William Bulloch , bacteriologist at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 19 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 20 | In 1689 , through Locke , he was appointed auditor-general to Queen Mary II ; her death in 1694 was a great blow . |
| 21 | On retirement he was appointed ADC to Queen Victoria and Lieutenant of the Tower of London . |
| 22 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |
| 23 | The climax of the account is the fact that one of the ten who was cured return to Jesus to thank him ( Luke 17:15 ) . |
| 24 | Norwich and Cambridge were reached ; Clydeside 's £85million showpiece was completed with the linking up of Largs and Ardrossan Harbour to the main Ayrshire system ; and the Great Northern system was extended north to Huntingdon and Peterborough . |
| 25 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 26 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 27 | The Battle of Britain was beginning , and on 10 August No. 603 was ordered south to Hornchurch . |