Example sentences of "[was/were] appointed [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranks were restored in the People 's Liberation Army as from Oct. 1 , 1988 , and 17 generals were appointed for the first time in 23 years [ for adoption by NPC in July 1988 of regulations re-introducing military ranks see p. 36104 ] . |
| 2 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 3 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 4 | In the Administration formed by John Major after the General Election in April 1992 , a solicitor , John Taylor , was appointed as the first Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 5 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 6 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |