Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed . |
| 2 | He was formerly Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading and for nine years until the end of 1986 he was Director of the National Consumer Council . |
| 3 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 4 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 5 | By the autumn of 1643 he was major-general to Arthur Capel ( first Baron Capel of Hadham , q.v. ) in Cheshire . |
| 6 | Judge Cox said that he was satisfied that in the summer of 1990 there was foam on the surface of the River Creedy for significant periods and it damaged the fishing rights . |
| 7 | From 1590 he was professor of philosophy at the Roman College ( now Gregorian University ) and students ' notes of his lectures exist in several European libraries . |
| 8 | In 1827–30 he was master of the William and Ann , owned by James Weddell [ q.v. ] , |
| 9 | Similarly in 1925 there was praise for von Stroheim 's Greed , which was a movie version of the Frank Norris novel McTeague . |
| 10 | In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 . |
| 11 | In 1586 he was recorder of the similarly Protestant borough of Maldon . |
| 12 | In 1904 she was president of the Women 's Local Government Society . |
| 13 | When Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 he was head of the party , and known as ‘ Brother Number One ’ . |
| 14 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 15 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 16 | In 1884 he was co-editor of the London Mission Hymn Book with W. Walsham How and Edward H. Bickersteth , bishop of Exeter [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 18 | , William ( fl. 1468–1504 ) , architect , was a Freemason and citizen of Oxford , where from 1468 he was master of the building of Magdalen College , founded by Bishop William Waynflete [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | At the Tory Party conference in 1958 there was discussion about ‘ this sudden increase in crime and brutality which is so foreign to our nature and our country ’ . |
| 20 | In 1912 he was runner-up at Muirfield , and in 1914 at Prestwick was champion again for the sixth and last time . |
| 21 | At the time of his death in 1949 he was professor of Linguistics at Yale University . |
| 22 | In 1967–71 he was director of the BMA Planning Unit . |
| 23 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 24 | He won again in 1898 and 1899 ; in 1900 he was runner-up to Taylor and in 1901 runner-up to Braid . |
| 25 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 26 | In four there was persistence of symptoms and endoscopic evidence of failure of ulcer healing despite three months of treatment with 300 mg ranitidine a day . |
| 27 | From 1895–1897 he was President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . |
| 28 | The gall bladder mucosa seemed normal in 16 patients ; in two there was evidence of chronic inflammation , and in one patient the gall bladder was acutely inflammed . |
| 29 | But in 1837 there is evidence of broader intervention in the election . |
| 30 | In 1454 he was alnager for Northamptonshire and Rutland , charged with examining the measurement and quality of woollen goods in those counties . |