Example sentences of "[num] he be [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1591 he was one of twenty-four young men whom Essex knighted in the Rouen expedition . |
| 2 | He was already in Paris on the king 's business during July 1258 , and early in 1263 he was one of Henry III 's proctors in the French royal court . |
| 3 | He devoted his remaining years to Kentish affairs : he was an active local magistrate ; he promoted a loyal address to the king from the inhabitants of Walmer in December 1820 ; and in 1826 he was one of the main subscribers to the enlargement of Walmer church . |
| 4 | The first office he is known to have held ( in 1256 ) was the purely local one of coroner and in 1258 he was one of the four Shropshire knights appointed to investigate grievances in the same county under the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 5 | In 1911 he founded the Glasgow Music Festival and in 1921 he was one of the founders of the British Federation of Music Festivals . |
| 6 | In 1813 he was one of the original directors of the Philharmonic Society . |
| 7 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Already in 1610 he was one of ‘ a select number of the Lower House ’ who met with the lord treasurer , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , son of his father 's patron , to discuss impositions . |
| 9 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 10 | Now at 18 he 's one of Britain 's top twenty players . |
| 11 | In 1897 he was one of the original recipients of the Victoria medal of honour in horticulture , presented by the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 12 | In 1670 he was one of the original adventurers listed in the royal charter of the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 13 | However , Whitelocke , like Cromwell himself , was not ‘ wedded or glued to forms of government ’ , and in 1657 he was one of those who urged Cromwell to accept the crown , in the hope that it would wean the Protector from his military power-base . |
| 14 | Well before the dissolution of the monasteries Stumpe had settled in Malmesbury ; by 1524 he was one of the town 's richest inhabitants . |
| 15 | In 1835 he was one of the founder-members of the Institute ( later Royal Institute ) of British Architects , from 1836 to 1843 he was one of the joint honorary secretaries , and in 1850–1 he was elected a vice-president . |
| 16 | In 1835 he was one of the founder-members of the Institute ( later Royal Institute ) of British Architects , from 1836 to 1843 he was one of the joint honorary secretaries , and in 1850–1 he was elected a vice-president . |
| 17 | In 1961 he was one of three people who decided to form WWF , to raise funds to protect wildlife throughout the world . |
| 18 | In November 1659 he was one of the naval officers ashore who wrote urging Monck to accept the army 's coup against the restored Rump Parliament . |
| 19 | In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | In 1829 he was one of the three judges for the Rainhill locomotive trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , won by the Stephensons ' ‘ Rocket ’ . |
| 21 | In 1889 he was one of the delegates to the International Congregational Council in Boston , and he made several further trips to North America , including one in 1907 to give the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University . |
| 22 | In 1983 he was one of the original members of the international Academy of Humanism , and in 1988 he received the International Humanist Award ‘ in recognition of his long-standing contributions to the cause of human rights , the scientific outlook , and the ideals of humanism . ’ |
| 23 | Tixier-Vignancour emerged from this period of enforced reflection with a deep loathing for General de Gaulle and when he returned to politics in 1955 he was one of the architects of the revival of the extreme right , using the popular cause of ‘ Algerie Francaise ’ as a rallying point . |
| 24 | In 1263–4 he was one of four men who administered the county of Yorkshire in opposition to its royalist sheriff . |
| 25 | During the 1660s and 1670s he was one of the principal means by which the government sought to influence City politics . |
| 26 | In 1686 he was one of the stewards of the Oxford and Oxfordshire feast ; and when the university went in ceremonial procession to meet James II in 1687 , he deputized for the superior bedel of arts . |
| 27 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
| 28 | Already a supporter of political reform in the 1780s , in October 1791 he was one of the thirteen founders of the Society of United Irishmen and a proprietor of its newspaper , the Northern Star . |
| 29 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 30 | In 1910 he was one of the prime organizers of the Royal Institute of British Architects ' International Town Planning Congress ( which attracted an astonishing 1,300 delegates ) ; between 1912 and 1914 he was lecturing at the University of Birmingham ; and in 1913 he was playing an active role in establishing a Town Planning Institute . |