Example sentences of "[pron] be appointed to " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was appointed to two sinecures , one being a share in the living of Cladinam in Montgomeryshire , and the other the canonry of Lincoln , together with the prebend of Leighton Ecclesia , which he tried in vain to pass on to his friend Nicholas Ferrar . |
| 32 | As director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven until 1987 ( the year he was appointed to the Gemeentemuseum ) , he left behind a sizeable financial deficit , caused by overspending on buying modern art and on travel expenses . |
| 33 | In 1878 he was appointed to the Great General Staff . |
| 34 | In 1985 he was appointed to a full-time lectureship in Education ( Special Needs ) . |
| 35 | José and Paz Puig de la Bellacasa have both done so much good for both Spain and Britain since he was appointed to the Court of St. James 's in 1983 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |
| 38 | Mentioned in dispatches and twice wounded , he was appointed to the DSO in 1918 . |
| 39 | Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 42 | He was one of sixteen lawyers asked by the Privy Council in 1588 to prepare bills on judicial reform and to consider the revision of existing statutes ; in 1589 he was appointed to the committee of privileges and to some ten others , including one concerning pluralities and non-residence . |
| 43 | In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] . |
| 44 | As a result , on 15 October 1896 , he was appointed to a sub-committee at the Science Museum alongside twenty-five other distinguished engineers , with the objective of establishing a permanent railway museum . |
| 45 | Nothing came of this , but in 1591 he was appointed to his only national post , the chamberlainship of the Exchequer , setting up office on his Blackfriars property . |
| 46 | That same year he was appointed to ‘ the place and quality of Geographer in Ordinary to his Majesty ’ . |
| 47 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
| 48 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | He served in India and Uganda , where he was appointed to the DSO ( 1899 ) , before joining the staff of H. H. Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of the Broome , q.v. ) in the Boer war , in which he was wounded in action . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | He showed a natural aptitude for mechanical construction , and on completing his apprenticeship he was appointed to his late father 's post at the colliery . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | By now resident in fashionable Kensington , he was appointed to the Middlesex militia committee in 1644 and to both the Middlesex and the Norfolk militia committees in 1648 . |
| 55 | Having completed all his examinations in four months , instead of the usual six , he was appointed to the rank of sub-inspector and , in that capacity , between 1860 and 1868 he served in counties Tipperary , Donegal , and Kilkenny , and in Belfast . |
| 56 | He was appointed to the Company 's service in 1741 . |
| 57 | In 1907 he was appointed to the newly established lectureship of physiology and experimental psychology and made director of the university 's new psychology laboratory , the first of its kind in Great Britain . |
| 58 | In 1746 he was appointed to a post in the Office of Works , as clerk of the works at Hampton Court , presumably through the influence of Burlington ; and his subsequent career was based on that institution and the patronage of one leading public figure , Thomas Pelham-Holles , first Duke of Newcastle [ q.v . ] . |
| 59 | In 1886 he was appointed to Newcastle , the first of his six diocesan chancellorships . |
| 60 | In 1898 he was appointed to the Bank of England 's court , and joined its influential committee of treasury in 1915 . |