Example sentences of "[was/were] appointed to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a decree issued by King Hussein on Jan. 1 , a leading Palestinian politician , Taher al-Masri , replaced Marwan al-Qasem as the Jordanian Foreign Affairs Minister , and members of the Moslem Brotherhood were appointed to the Religious Affairs , Health , Education , Justice and Social Development ministries . |
| 2 | In July , for example , five Catholics were appointed to the Privy Council . |
| 3 | There was strong criticism amongst black Labour Party members last year when no black was appointed to the front bench in that year 's reshuffle and again when Mr Alistair Darling , the MP for Edinburgh Central , was given the race relations brief . |
| 4 | In 1878 he was appointed to the Great General Staff . |
| 5 | Educated at Rugby and the Royal School of Mines , he was appointed to the Geological Survey of India as assistant superintendent in 1879 , following the death of his father in 1878 . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , Hammond was appointed to the corresponding post in the New Model Army from the spring of 1645 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He remained a frequent lecturer in the parish church of Allhallows , and in March 1652 he was appointed to the sequestered rectory of St Botolph 's Bishopsgate . |
| 9 | In December 1990 Surjit Singh Barnala , the then Governor of Tamil Nadu , was appointed to the additional post of Administrator of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in place of Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) R. S. Dyal . |
| 10 | Khmail , jailed for four years for intifada-related offences , was appointed to the Palestinian side by Mr Faisal al Husseini , delegation head , according to Israeli reports . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During early 1983 Mr. H.D. Robinson ( who had originally joined the staff in 1952 ) was appointed to the new post of Proctor , two years after having laid down his baton as conductor of the School Orchestra since 1963 . |
| 13 | At the end of 1900 , on the recommendation of Kew , Butler was appointed to the new post of cryptogamic botanist to the government of India . |
| 14 | In June 1989 Yi Chol Pong was appointed to the new Ministry of Urban Management and Pyong Yong Nip was replaced by Choe Ki Chong as Chairman of the Educational Commission . |
| 15 | In a reshuffle on June 14 ( i ) Aguinaldo Jaime replaced Augusto Teixeira de Matos as Minister of Finance ; ( ii ) Boavista da Silva Cardoso was appointed to the new portfolio of Information ; and ( iii ) José de Franca Dias Van Dúnem was appointed Minister of Planning in place of António Henriques da Silva . |
| 16 | On Dec. 19 Michel Delebarre was appointed to the new post of Minister of State for Towns , with the task of combating growing social problems in urban areas [ for October rioting see p. 37869 ] . |
| 17 | Lt.-Col. Augustin Ndindiliyimana , hitherto Minister for Transport and Communications , was appointed to the new post of Minister in the Presidency responsible for Defence ( the Defence portfolio had been held hitherto by Habyarimana ) . |
| 18 | In two major changes announced on Oct. 16 , Nvono Akhele was promoted from a minister-delegate to become Secretary-General to the Presidency , taking over from Nguema Ongueme , who was appointed to the new post of Minister of State in charge of Economy , Trade and Planning [ for full Cabinet list as of May 1990 see p. 37478 ] . |
| 19 | Hasan Abou Ayoub was appointed to the new post of Minister of Foreign Trade on Jan. 17 , 1990 ; Moulay Driss Alaomi M'Daghri became Minister for Energy and Mines , Abdallah Kadiri Minister for Tourism and Abdeslam Baraka Minister for Arab Maghreb Affairs on July 31 [ for Cabinet list as of early January 1990 see p. 37219 ] . |
| 20 | Immediately upon stepping down Buchanan was appointed to the federal Senate by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney . |
| 21 | In 1990 he was appointed to the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By 1592 , through the influence of many eminent intellectuals and men of power he was appointed to the prestigious post of professor of mathematics at the University of Padua , where his inaugural lecture was delivered in the Great Hall to an immense audience . |
| 24 | A former PFL senator , Jorge Borhausen , was appointed to the newly-created Cabinet post of Secretary to the Presidency , with responsibility for rebuilding relations with Congress , a task previously carried out by Justice Minister Jarbas Passarinho . |
| 25 | He was paid as such down to 1287 and in 1290 was still in possession of a key to the Jewish treasury , but it is doubtful whether he actually acted as a justice for most of this period , since in February 1283 he was appointed to the full-time position of escheator of England south of Trent . |
| 26 | A preliminary meeting , at which the Village Association was represented , was held in Currie High School , Dr F Neave was appointed to the final committee as the representative of the Village Association . |
| 27 | She was appointed to the Foreign Office 's advisory committee on the Boxer indemnity fund in 1925 and made two visits to China ( 1926 and 1930–1 ) . |
| 28 | During a visit to Jordan on Jan. 10 , Farouq Qaddumi , who was appointed to the foreign affairs portfolio of the Palestinian government-in-exile in April 1989 [ see p. 36536 ] , said that the Baker plan had failed and called for a meeting of the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian parliament-in-exile ) to discuss future strategy . |
| 29 | For example , in 1975 a man was appointed to the High Court at the relatively late age of 62 . |
| 30 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |