Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 2 | 12 It is 1,280km from Freeport to Santo Domingo . |
| 3 | In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 . |
| 4 | The rate poundage is set by local councils and for Oxford in 1989–90 it is 291.1p in the pound . |
| 5 | About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed . |
| 6 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 7 | From 1977 to 1979 he was chairman of the Food $ Drink Industries Council . |
| 8 | In 1586 he was recorder of the similarly Protestant borough of Maldon . |
| 9 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 10 | In 1904 she was president of the Women 's Local Government Society . |
| 11 | From 1928 to 1932 he was attorney-general to the prince of Wales . |
| 12 | When Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 he was head of the party , and known as ‘ Brother Number One ’ . |
| 13 | Come the Seventies it was time for a rethink . |
| 14 | In 1969 he was Polonius in the Roundhouse , prior-to-Broadway , Hamlet , before returning to the RSC in 1972 and making his National Theatre debut in 1974 . |
| 15 | From 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the faculty board of history and from 1962 to his death he was chairman of the governors of the Cambridge Institute of Education . |
| 16 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 17 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 18 | From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men . |
| 19 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 20 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 21 | In 1884 he was co-editor of the London Mission Hymn Book with W. Walsham How and Edward H. Bickersteth , bishop of Exeter [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | From 1920 to 1922 he was professor of Indian linguistics at Benares Hindu University . |
| 23 | In the early 1970s he was editor of the Provisional republican newspaper in the north , Republican News . |
| 24 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 25 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 26 | From 1954 to 1958 he was adviser on Militia to the Army and in 1963 was appointed honorary Colonel of the British Columbia Regiment . |
| 27 | , William ( fl. 1468–1504 ) , architect , was a Freemason and citizen of Oxford , where from 1468 he was master of the building of Magdalen College , founded by Bishop William Waynflete [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | In 1976 the average capital investment per job generated by grant-aided foreign direct investment was £7,850 ; for Tara 's Navan mine in 1977 it was £93,800 per job . |
| 29 | At the time of his death in 1949 he was professor of Linguistics at Yale University . |
| 30 | In 1912 he was runner-up at Muirfield , and in 1914 at Prestwick was champion again for the sixth and last time . |