Example sentences of "president of [art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
2 | The president of the Assassins ' Guild spun his short blowgun dexterously and slotted it into its holster in one smooth movement . |
3 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
4 | Jansher has been rebuffed in the past by the president of the Players ' Association , Chris Dittmar , for demanding too much of tournament organisers . |
5 | Shanks was president of the Mechanics ' Institute of St Helens . |
6 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
7 | Included in the new Cabinet was Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu , president of the teachers ' union and a former critic of the government . |
8 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
9 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
10 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
11 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
12 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
13 | When civil war broke out in Ireland she became president of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League . |
14 | In 1904 she was president of the Women 's Local Government Society . |
15 | In 1894 Gertrude Tuckwell ( Secretary and later President of the Women 's Trade Union League ) advocated ‘ the gradual extension of labour protection to the point where mothers will be prohibited from working until their children have reached an age at which they can care for themselves ’ , and the Women 's Labour League agreed that mothers with children under five should not be employed . |
16 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
17 | The President of the Students ' Union meets the Vice-Chancellor of the University on a regular basis |
18 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
19 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
20 | The hidden agenda , which has never been properly discussed , was an attempt by American superagent Mark McCormack to muscle into the world of FI via Didier Pironi , then president of the drivers ' association . |
21 | The variety of guests present , who included Chamorro 's Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Joaquín Villalobos , the leader of the general command of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) in El Salvador , Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) , president of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) in Brazil , and Guatemala 's former President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , was seen as reflecting different political currents within the FSLN and its desire for increased political respectability . |