Example sentences of "[num] he became [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years later he returned to Manchester New College , and in 1888 he became assistant minister to Philip Wicksteed in Little Portland Street , London . |
| 2 | In 1920 he became honorary director of the department of applied optics , National Institute for Medical Research , retiring during World War II . |
| 3 | In 1932 he became Prime Minister and in 1933 Dictator , a situation which continued until his retirement due to a massive stroke in 1968 . |
| 4 | By the time he was twenty he was working with his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel ; in 1831 he was put in charge of the suspension bridge at Clifton ( q.v. ) which he had designed ; and in 1833 he became chief engineer of the Great Western Railway , which was largely his brainchild . |
| 5 | In 1921 he became general officer commanding the troops in Malaya . |
| 6 | In 1908 he became assistant works manager and chief draughtsman at the French Westinghouse Company 's brake and signal works in Paris , where he had his first contacts with French railway engineers . |
| 7 | In April 1908 he became financial secretary to the Treasury , and in October 1911 gained a place in the cabinet as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 8 | In January 1884 he became senior mathematics master at Blairlodge School , Stirlingshire ; in January 1885 he was appointed mathematical master ( later head of mathematics ) at King Edward 's High School , Birmingham , where he remained until his retirement in March 1920 . |
| 9 | In 1883 he became consulting engineer and in 1885 a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , where he was responsible for the design and construction of their Horwich ( Bolton ) locomotive works and was chairman of the rolling-stock and locomotive workshop committees . |
| 10 | On 22 December 1631 he became non-resident governor of Jersey , and through the 1630s sat on several administrative commissions . |
| 11 | He began to modernize the Army ; in 1923 he became prime minister and started to strengthen the central government against the tribes . |
| 12 | In 1829 he became resident engineer for the uncompleted Bolton and Leigh Railway and in 1830 resident engineer for the Liverpool section of the Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 13 | In 1986 he became general manager of the Care Fore Group 's residential and nursing homes . |
| 14 | In 1986 he became general manager for a private sector group 's residential and nursing homes and for the past year has been connected with the Bridge Hospital in Witham , involved with people with learning disabilities . |
| 15 | When the firm became Bell Lawrie in 1986 he became managing director and the firm changed simultaneously from being a partnership to a limited company . |
| 16 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 17 | In Safar 989/March 1581 he became Rumeli kazasker a second time , and , on 26 Dhu " l-Hijja of the same year ( 21 January 1582 ) , he became Mufti , in which post he remained until his death on 28 Jumada I 995/6 May 1587 . |
| 18 | In 1953 he became Assistant Professor and in 1957 Professor of Library Science at Simmons College in Boston , where he remained until 1965 . |
| 19 | In addition , in 1926 he became general manager of their Preston works and in 1928 of the Stafford works also . |
| 20 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 21 | In 1868 he became chief chemist in a sugar refinery at the Victoria docks , owned by James Duncan , with whom he devised and patented several technical improvements . |
| 22 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |