Example sentences of "of [noun prp] be appoint " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1830 the Duchess of Northumberland was appointed official governess , Lehzen stayed as lady in attendance and Victoria 's constant attendant , without an official appointment , until 1842 , acting latterly as her secretary in private matters . |
| 2 | A deputation of Baldwin , the Lord Chancellor ( Cave ) and the Duke of Devonshire was appointed to wait upon Bonar Law and persuade him not to resign . |
| 3 | When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946 , Letson — as a soldier with wide connections in business and society — proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General . |
| 4 | Four of the leading jurists of Bologna were appointed to prepare a document defining for ever the relationship between the empire on one hand and the cities of Italy and imperial vassal on the other . |
| 5 | B. & C. was unable or unwilling to provide the necessary funds and on 16 April 1990 administrators of Atlantic were appointed by the court . |
| 6 | proposed that of Droitwich be appointed Auditors at a fee of £850 plus VAT . |
| 7 | The Duke of Bedford was appointed Grand Visitor and Samuel Whitbread the Second became Perpetual President . |
| 8 | The Corporation of London was appointed Conservators of the Forest , with the duty of protecting and managing the forest as an open space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public : a duty it discharged through an Epping Forest Committee . |
| 9 | The first step in the modernization of TDC was to appoint someone to improve what was widely acknowledged to be an unacceptable situation . |
| 10 | The Director-General of RTF was appointed by the government ( as were the heads of state or public service radio and TV until 1982 ) : the ‘ DG ’ appointed in 1946 , Vladimir Porche , held his post for 11 years ; but governments conceived of broadcasting as a state administration , and Porche himself — a ‘ counseiller d'etat ’ — was the first of a long series of ‘ counseillers d'etat ’ , prefects and top civil servants to head the state broadcasting organizations , RTF and ORTF ( i.e. until 1974 ) . |