Example sentences of "[vb past] be appointed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airlift Book Company this week announced that it had been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Shambhala Publications , taking over from Rider Books ( part of Random House ) on 1st April . |
| 2 | Nezzar , who had been appointed armed forces Chief of Staff in November 1988 following the previous month 's disturbances [ see p. 36506 ] , was replaced in that post by Brig. |
| 3 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 4 | Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] . |
| 5 | Her claims were backed by prominent politicians from the newly formed National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) [ see p. 39054 ] including Ghulam Mustapha Jatoi who had been appointed interim Prime Minister in August 1990 on Bhutto 's dismissal [ see pp. 37652 ] . |
| 6 | Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation . |
| 7 | Peterle ( born in 1948 ) had been leader of the Christian Democrats since autumn 1989 , and as the leader of the largest coalition party , had been appointed Prime Minister after the elections . |
| 8 | The main architect of the May crackdown , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , had been appointed Prime Minister in March 1992 . |
| 9 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 10 | A proposal put forward at the end of January 1990 by Mario Schimberni , who in November 1988 had been appointed temporary special commissioner of the state railway system ( Ferrovie dello Stato — FS ) [ see pp. 37095-96 ] , met fierce opposition from both unions and politicians . |
| 11 | Wofford , 65 , once an aide to President Kennedy , had been appointed temporary senator in May 1991 by Democratic governor Robert Casey after the death in April of incumbent Republican John Heinz in a plane crash [ see p. 38138 ] . |
| 12 | On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] . |
| 13 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 14 | He had been appointed Military Attache to my father in 1917 after being badly wounded in France . |
| 15 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 16 | By the time he left Liverpool in 1873 he had been appointed consulting and superintending engineer to a number of shipping companies , including the Flower Line , the Castle Line , and the Eastern Telegraph Company . |
| 17 | Bozer , hitherto Minister of State ( and effectively deputy Prime Minister ) , had been appointed Foreign Minister only in February 1990 . |
| 18 | The resignation on July 29 of Vincenzo Scotti ( DC ) , who had been appointed Foreign Minister four weeks earlier , prompted widespread criticism . |