Example sentences of "was invite [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When was invited to conduct a review of the topic in the summer the Public Affairs Committee set up a working party ( Chairman : QC ) , and the report has been submitted to . |
| 2 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 3 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 4 | When the National Front leader , Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh , was invited to form a government on December 1 , he was told by President Ramaswamy Venkataraman to secure a vote of confidence within 30 days . |
| 5 | Eight women members were elected to that parliament , which J. Ramsay MacDonald — the leader of the Labour party — was invited to form a government , but' that government could n't last and , in 1924 , the Conservative party won a large majority , so Stanley Baldwin again became Prime Minister with Winston Churchill as the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 6 | Whether it was to her own Buddhist cook , or when she was invited to do a series of " Thoughts for the Day " on the radio . |
| 7 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 8 | Some weeks after returning from my exploits in Alaska and Siberia , I was invited to give a lecture on the trip to the Overseas League meeting in the Empress Hotel , Victoria . |
| 9 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 10 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 11 | On March 24 , the APF was invited to join a coalition government . |
| 12 | He was delighted , therefore , when the following year he was invited to join a Commonwealth team touring India ; feeling he had a point to prove he made plenty of runs , and was invited on two similar tours in the coming years . |
| 13 | At Plymouth , for example , where in 1941 he was invited to prepare a redevelopment plan for the city , in cooperation with the City Engineer , H. Paton Watson , his starting point was that he should not be constrained by local authority boundaries : in his view Plymouth extended six miles and more beyond the city centre and should be planned on that basis . |
| 14 | In 1989 I was invited to become a member of Academia Europaea ( European Academy ) . |
| 15 | Susan Hampshire herself was invited to become a governor , and who knows , might have accepted , had she been able to suss out what we were on about . |
| 16 | In gratitude for this service Gamlin was invited to become a Vice-president , Regional Vice-presidents having in the meantime been abolished by a revision of the constitution . |
| 17 | In South Arabia as part of the Pax Britannica in the 1950s and 1960s , when some local robber baron was ‘ persuaded ’ to stop plundering caravans , he was invited to surrender a hostage to authority , as a gesture of future good faith . |
| 18 | Each of these companies was invited to accept a field officer , a college lecturer with a half-day per week freed up from teaching for the purpose . |
| 19 | Molly was invited to start a class and Hilda was one of five beginners in it . |
| 20 | But when he was invited to play a piece of music he had composed for the Princess Royal to her when she visited Edinburgh , they rapidly found out . |
| 21 | On May 10th Bill Crist , the president of the Calpers board , was invited to address a Tokyo conference laid on by the Keidanren , a big-business association . |
| 22 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1962 , Lord Mills , Macmillan 's favourite industrialist from Ministry of Housing days , was invited to chair a committee to examine the pros and cons , and came out in favour . |
| 24 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 25 | In this latter circle , after having written two full-length studies on idealism , she was invited to deliver a paper on primary and secondary consciousness in 1923 . |