Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Baron 's word was considered sufficient deterrent to would-be explorers . |
| 3 | In the course of a 24-hour drama the kidnapper , Orlando Ordoñez Betancourt , successfully demanded that they be flown with him to Honduras , where after an airport siege he was granted safe passage to Mexico . |
| 4 | The " Secret Office " in which this skilled and highly confidential work was done dated back to 1653 and was an unpublicised aspect of the new efficiency which the Cromwellian period brought to much government activity ; by the end of the eighteenth century it had a staff of ten . |
| 5 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 6 | In Germany notably , where the government was a good deal less influenced by domestic opinion than in France and Britain , there was marked official sensitivity to the comments of foreign newspapers and an anxiety to present the best possible face to the outside world . |
| 7 | KHALID SKAH of Morocco was crowned Olympic champion to jeers last night after his off-on victory in the 10,000 metres . |
| 8 | KHALID SKAH was crowned Olympic champion to deafening jeering last night after his controversial off-on victory in the 10,000 metres . |
| 9 | Unwin was appointed Technical Advisor to the Committee ( chaired by Sir Bannister Fletcher , President of the RIBA and representative of the City of London ) in January 1929 for two years . |
| 10 | In July 1942 he was appointed technical adviser to the controller of light industries in Palestine . |
| 11 | In 1894 she was appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on secondary education under James ( later Viscount ) Bryce [ q.v. ] to investigate girls ' education in Devon . |
| 12 | After demobilization he worked at the National Hospital , Queen Square , and at Hammersmith Hospital , and in 1947 was appointed assistant physician to Dr A. G. Ogilvie at the RVI , where he further developed his neurological interests and established a flourishing private practice . |
| 13 | In 1858 he took the London MB and became medical superintendent of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots ; and in 1859 he took the MD and the MRCP and was appointed assistant physician to the London Hospital . |
| 14 | He was appointed Assistant Manager to Ronnie Rooke and , after Rooke 's resignation at the end of November 1950 , Dawes became joint-manager with Charlie Slade . |
| 15 | In 1972 he was appointed assistant Private Secretary to The Queen ; in 1982 he was given a knighthood , and on the retirement of Lord Moore of Wolvercote in 1986 , he was appointed Private Secretary to The Queen , and Keeper of The Queen 's Archives . |
| 16 | Saadi Tu'ma Abbas al-Jaburi who was appointed military adviser to the President [ for Jaburi 's appointment in December 1990 see p. 37927 ] . |
| 17 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 18 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 , Shaikh Ibrahim ibn Abdullah al-Angari was appointed special adviser to King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 19 | Their predecessor , Pascal Rakotomavo , was appointed special counsellor to the policy-making Supreme Revolutionary Council . |
| 20 | In 1912 he was appointed honorary chaplain to George V , having organized bonfire celebrations for Queen Victoria 's jubilees and the king 's coronation . |
| 21 | In 1852 he was appointed medical officer to the Royal Free Hospital , Hampstead , where he handled the local offensive against cholera during the 1854 epidemic . |
| 22 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 23 | In October 1933 , Mr. Spencer resigned and was appointed Resident Director to the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co . |
| 24 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 25 | After the war Humphrys became political agent , Khyber ( 1919 ) , and deputy foreign secretary of the government of India ( 1921 ) , a post which he held until 1922 , when he was appointed British minister to Afghanistan . |
| 26 | He was appointed mathematical instrument-maker to Frederick , prince of Wales [ q.v. ] |
| 27 | In 1772 he was appointed mathematical instrument-maker to the Board of Ordnance . |
| 28 | The right to supply this instrument passed to his family , and thus Bate , as nephew and son-in-law , was appointed mathematical instrument-maker to HM Excise , a privilege later extended to his widow . |
| 29 | In 1894 Marks was appointed consulting engineer to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and he built another cliff railway in Budapest , for which he was rewarded with a knighthood of the Ducal Order of Ernest . |
| 30 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |