Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] as the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation .
2 In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need .
3 In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology .
4 So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort
5 I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort .
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