Example sentences of "was [vb pp] head [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits . |
| 2 | Mr Gene Lockhart , a brash American former management consultant , was made head of Midland 's computer-systems and group operations in 1987 . |
| 3 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 4 | The Russian invasion forestalled this , and after the coup a Soviet nominee , Babrak Kabul , a hard-line Marxist and former deputy prime minister , was appointed head of state . |
| 5 | Mary Law was appointed head of Humanities in September 1978 with the specific task of reorganizing that area of the curriculum . |
| 6 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 7 | In 1981 he moved to programmes and planning , helping to coordinate Harwell 's programmes , while still maintaining contacts with the European Commission and DTI officials , and was appointed head of research planning and information services in 1983 . |
| 8 | Woods worked directly under Michael Balcon when he was appointed head of production in 1947 and was responsible for employing Ardizzone , Bawden , Barnett Freedman , Peake , Minton , Piper , Searle and others , to produce posters and other advertising material . |
| 9 | He returned to the School in December 1945 and was appointed Head of Department in 1952 on the death of Mr. Paine , with whom he had pioneered oral methods of teaching French back in the 1930s . |
| 10 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |