Example sentences of "[conj] he was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He founded an English branch of the Sangha at St Ives , Huntingdonshire , where he was vicar from 1931 to 1937 . |
| 2 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 3 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 4 | A social worker by training , his earlier career embraced social work for the deaf in Liverpool and Nottinghamshire and teaching at the North London Polytechnic , where he was tutor in charge of the course leading to a " Certificate in Deaf Studies " . |
| 5 | Mr Amann joins the Copthorne group from Forte 's international division where he was director of food and beverage operations at the Royal Mansour Hotel , Casablanca , Morocco . |
| 6 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 7 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 8 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 9 | Guests included a large gathering of colleagues , both present and past , and representative of Jim 's earlier days in the Chief Accountant 's , Securities and Ledger Department , and Drumsheugh Branch , where he was Manager for four years . |
| 10 | A man of determined industry , Renfrew was one of the guiding forces in the development of the new Glasgow archdiocesan offices , where he was moderator from 1988 . |
| 11 | Before the master the attack on the third party notice was , I understand , based on somewhat technical issues , such as the want of particularity in the allegations made against the third party , the fact that there is no assertion that he was part of the conspiracy in which the third defendant is said to have joined and an argument that the third defendant and the third party are not on any view liable to the plaintiffs in respect of the same damage , so that the case is not within section 1(1) of the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 , which I shall mention in some detail later . |
| 12 | Only Mark seemed to have an inkling of this strain ; but he ( thank heaven ) did n't seem to realize that he was part of it . |
| 13 | Basson , who in June had made allegations about SADF involvement in violence in South African townships [ see pp. 38270-71 ] , said that he was part of an operation to help the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA ) win the election partly by discrediting SWAPO . |
| 14 | Tony laughed along with the rest , even though the terrifying feeling that he was part of something unreal and sinister still persisted . |
| 15 | Hedilla believed that he was head of the party , but other members of the committee and their respective coteries considered that Hedilla was no more than " first among equals " and that , in any case , his authority was only provisional . |
| 16 | I did not realise that he was head of the English Department . |
| 17 | John became ‘ rather cool and offhand ’ now that he was master of the situation , ‘ bringing all my charms into action , but making it seem that I was very blasé about the whole thing . ’ |
| 18 | We will discover that he was master of his technique and of his style very early on . |
| 19 | Yesterday , John Major celebrated his first year as Prime Minister but we know that he was Chancellor in Mrs. Thatcher 's Government in the latter part of it — |
| 20 | When he split up with his wife , a while before , she spread some damaging stories about him , and I think the college was secretly quite relieved to have some evidence that he was het after all . |
| 21 | An agent said Sheridan had a difficulty with a ban from Dundee , in that he was convener of the Scottish Militant Labour Party and was involved in a forthcoming by-election in Dundee . |
| 22 | Was he worried that she 'd finally found her proof that he was hand in glove with Harry Martin ? |
| 23 | Down went Alvar Salvadores in great haste , and ordered a bell to be rung which was a signal for two hundred knights to make ready ; for the history saith , that the Cid , by reason that he was alway in war , had appointed such signals for his people , that they knew when one hundred were called for , and when two , and so forth . |
| 24 | All Marion 's life he had grumbled about being both a father and a mother to her and when she was small she had felt that he was cross with her . |
| 25 | She accused the President of carrying out a " constitutional coup d'etat " , hinting that he was party to a conspiracy involving sections of the Army , especially military intelligence . |
| 26 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 27 | Euphronios egrapsen certainly means ‘ Euphronios drew ’ ; Kachrylion epoiesen , ‘ Kachrylion made ’ , may mean that he actually potted the cup , or that he was owner of the workshop . |
| 28 | The plaintiff 's declaration alleged that he was owner of the Queen 's Theatre , that he had contracted with Johanna Wagner , a famous operatic singer , to perform exclusively in the theatre for a certain time and that the defendant , owner of a rival theatre , wishing himself to obtain Miss Wagner 's services ‘ knowing the premises and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff … enticed and persuaded [ her ] to refuse to perform . ’ |
| 29 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 30 | Rigge v. Bell ( 1793 ) 5 Durn. & E. 471 a parol agreement for a seven-year lease did not comply with the Statute of Frauds 1677 but the tenant entered and paid a yearly rent and it was held that he was tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement . |