Example sentences of "he [vb past] been appointed [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 2 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 3 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 4 | He had been appointed demonstrator in anatomy in his second year as a student , a remarkable achievement . |
| 5 | By 1914 he had been appointed deputy superintendent at Dehra Dun . |
| 6 | By 1863 , the date of the publication of The Water Babies , he had been appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge . |
| 7 | From 1915 to 1918 he served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and by the time he was released he had been appointed professor of Celtic ( a title later changed to Welsh ) at Cardiff , a post he held until his retirement in 1946 . |
| 8 | This was the period following Galileo 's move from Padua , where he had held the chair of mathematics since 1592 , to Florence where he had been appointed philosopher and mathematician to Cosimo II , grand duke of Tuscany . |
| 9 | In 1950 he was knighted for his services to Greek ( he had been appointed MBE in 1919 ) . |
| 10 | Most recently he had been appointed director of the Centre for International Studies by Zhao Ziyang , where he advised on foreign affairs . |