Example sentences of "was elected a member [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elected a member of the Aeronautical Society in 1868 , and with his prize money erected a building seventy feet long in which to continue his experiments , but his sight began to fail and he was unable to make any further progress . |
| 2 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1845 . |
| 3 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1859 and his paper ‘ On Machinery for the Preparing and Spinning of Cotton ’ was published in their Proceedings in 1866 . |
| 4 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 5 | He was elected a member of the Institutions of Civil Engineers ( 1829 ) and Mechanical Engineers ( 1858 ) , and a fellow of the Geological Society ( 1843 ) . |
| 6 | Garratt was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1902 . |
| 7 | He was elected a member of the Society for the Promotion of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce in 1760 , serving from 1763 to 1778 as the joint chairman of the committee on mechanics , and taking a leading part in its deliberations on such subjects as agricultural machinery , ships , and textiles . |
| 8 | Robertson was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1848 , and the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1849 . |
| 9 | In 1773 Jessop was elected a member of the Society of Civil Engineers , and from 1786 to 1805 was an alderman of Newark , Nottinghamshire . |
| 10 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 11 | After working as house surgeon to Jones Quain [ q.v. ] at University College Hospital , he became assistant medical officer at Wakefield Asylum ( 1857–8 ) , before a brief period at Brentwood Asylum as assistant MO , during which he was elected a member of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane ( later the Medico-Psychological Association ) in July 1858 . |
| 12 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1837 , a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1843 , a member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers in 1870 , and a fellow of the Geological Society ( 1825 ) . |
| 13 | In 1816 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and made a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog , on the strength of which he allowed himself thenceforth to be called ‘ Sir Charles ’ . |
| 14 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1898 . |
| 15 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 16 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1860 , and a member of council in 1879 . |
| 17 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1879 , and the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1881 , serving as a member of the council of the latter in 1894 . |
| 18 | So 1986 was elected a member of the Council for Ward . |