Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rev. John Warton , who was himself chairman of a small savings bank , recounts one of his parochial visits : |
| 2 | In December 1974 the Democratic caucus in the House took the momentous step of agreeing to an automatic secret ballot election for all committee chairmen and went on to remove W. R. Poage , the chairman of the Agriculture Committee , F. Edward Hebert , chairman of the Armed Services Committee , and Wright Patman of the Banking Committee |
| 3 | He was also a director of Hutchinsons Engineering and from 1968 to 1970 he was chairman of the International Standards Organisation Technical Committee . |
| 4 | Simon Master , Chairman of the General Books Division , commented : ‘ Combined with the other great strengths of these new publishing structures , I am particularly pleased to welcome Kate Parkin 's new role . |
| 5 | Chris Hordern is a member of Council and chairman of the Professional Standards Committee |
| 6 | They are Mr Sari Nusseibeh , professor of philosophy at Beir Zeit University , and Mr Radwan Abu Ayyash , chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Association . |
| 7 | On June 23 Air Marshal Anant Kalinta had been replaced by a civil servant as chairman of the state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand . |
| 8 | The dismissals followed the resignation of the chairman of the Doosan Electro-Materials Company , which had admitted responsibility for leaking highly toxic phenol waste into the Naktong River . |
| 9 | The Political Parties Tribunal , a special court acting under the auspices of the Supreme Administrative Court , on April 14 overturned an earlier decision of the chairman of the Political Affairs Committee and approved the formation of three new political parties : the Green Party , the Democratic Unionist Party and the Young Egypt Party ( Misr al-Fatah ) . |
| 10 | The way forward for the Bar is not by the retention of monopolistic practices but by competing on quality cost and marketing — not my words but those of , the Chairman of the Legal Services Committee . |
| 11 | He is also Chairman of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales and founder member of the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |
| 12 | Thanks to enthusiastic support from Jennifer Jenkins , chairman of the Historic Buildings Council , we were offered a very high level of grant towards the roof . |
| 13 | At last year 's annual representative meeting we were informed by the chairman of the Junior Doctors Committee that he was engaged in secret talks with the chief medical officer on the future of training and specialist recognition , without the knowledge of the seniors . |
| 14 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 15 | MANY travellers from British regions have to go to Holland to pick up inter-continental flights , Mr David Spooner , chairman of the Joint Airports Committee of Local Authority Airports , said yesterday . |
| 16 | Pat Clark , chairman of the new allotments committee , was asked about facilities at the site . |
| 17 | In 1945 she became deputy chairman of the United Nations Association , and in 1949 chairman of its executive committee and joint president ( with Gilbert Murray , q.v . ) . |
| 18 | Coun Tomlinson , chairman of the social services committee , said : ‘ The Government has now announced how it intends to allocate funds for the next four years . |
| 19 | The multi-million scheme was announced on Monday this week by Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , backed by his Minister of State , David Trippier ; Prof David Bellamy ; Sir David Attenborough , President of the Royal Society for Nature Conservancy ; Lord Crickhowell , chairman of the National Rivers Authority , and Ron Norman and Duncan Hall , chairman and chief executive respectively of the Teesside Development Corporation . |
| 20 | He is currently a member of the Racing Rules Committee , he 's Chairman of the National Judges Committee and is an R Y A U international judge . |
| 21 | As chairman of the British Railways Board ( 1963–5 ) , Beeching had made his reputation in the public sector by the impressive way he had tackled the thankless job of modernizing the outdated rail network . |
| 22 | The first is four lectures at the Royal Society of Arts to celebrate various anniversaries in the conservation world : In Search Of Neptune , Dr. John Harvey , Chief Adviser on Nature Conservation ( 8 October ) ; The Landmark Experience , Robin Evans , Director of the Landmark Trust ( 15 October ) ; Common Roots , Rodney Legg , Chairman of the Open Spaces Society ( 22 October ) ; and Lochs , Lairds and Legends , Christopher Hartley ( 29 October ) . |
| 23 | Made up of the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee , the Leader of the House of Commons and seven other members of the House ( who must not be ministers ) , its purpose is to oversee the National Audit Office , in approving the annual budget and appointing the auditor for the Office 's own accounts . |
| 24 | Sir Peter Hordern ( Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission ) |
| 25 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend recently received a letter from the chairman of the Scottish Steelfounders Association expressing concern about state subsidies to European steelfounders . |
| 27 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 28 | The former chairman of the Independent Appeals Tribunal said to me recently ‘ I wonder why it is that no benefit starts from the premises ‘ What can we do to help ? ’ but always seems to be ‘ How can we stop the bastards getting away with it ? ' ’ — coarse , but true ! |
| 29 | The latter two were on a nine-man organising committee along with Philip Tomalin , who , as cricket chairman of the French Sports Federation and captain of the SAC , had a major role in setting up the game . |
| 30 | Anthony Bowden , chairman of the all-party pensioners group , said last night that he could not vote against the whole basis of the Budget . |