Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [noun prp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR PETER LEVENE , chairman of the Docklands Light Railway , and former chief of Defence Procurement , was yesterday appointed as adviser on efficiency to the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | Doje Cering , a 52-year-old ethnic Tibetan , resigned as Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region on May 20 , ostensibly on the grounds of ill-health ; he was replaced on May 31 by Gyainvain Norbu . |
| 3 | Dr Arne Ljungqvist , chairman of the IAAF Medical Commission , suggested in Stockholm yesterday that he was confused by the decision . |
| 4 | He has also been a non-executive chairman of Cable $ Wireless , chairman of the North American Advisor ) , Group , chairman of the Man-made Fibre Producers Committee and chairman of the European Synthetic Fibre Manufacturers . |
| 5 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI smaller firms council , said : ‘ The CBI are delighted to support the initiative that both Kall Kwik and Grant Thornton have taken in producing their booklet . |
| 6 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ This survey shows that smaller firms ’ optimism has weakened over the last four months . |
| 7 | Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa , in his capacity as current chairman of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , visited member states in September and October ahead of the SAARC summit scheduled for December . |
| 8 | Peter Fitzgerald , one of the largest manufacturing employers in the county and chairman of the Cornwall economic forum , has emphasised the importance to local business of Cornwall having its own M E P . |
| 9 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 10 | MIKE Stanbury , chairman of the East Anglian Railway Museum , receives a cheque from new museum sponsors Allan Chapman & James , director Terry Austin . |
| 11 | In East Berlin Havel held talks with Manfred Gerlach , acting Chairman of the East German Council of State ( head of state ) . |
| 12 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |
| 13 | He was a highly respected member of the panel of arbiters and was the founder chairman of the Kelso Agricultural Discussion Society . |
| 14 | He is Chairman of the London Regional Passengers ' Committee and Chairman of the educationist , consumer champion , author and Health and Social Welfare Sector Programme broadcaster . |
| 15 | " Sir Geoffrey is chairman of the London Metropolitan Bank , the biggest of the clearing banks . " |
| 16 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a decision taken without any joy , ’ said Joyce Clarke , chairman of the England indoor committee . |
| 18 | Under the terms of a 1984 constitutional amendment , the chairman of the PCT central committee is also head of state , these offices being held currently by Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso , who assumed power in 1979 . |
| 19 | The chairman of the PCT central committee is also head of state and has executive powers . |
| 20 | Last night , the recently re-elected chairman of the Eastwood Conservative Association , Cliff Hargreaves , confirmed the appointments . |
| 21 | On Tuesday night in Biloxi , Missouri , Holmes will fight Everett ‘ Big Foot ’ Martin in a Bill Lyons , chairman of the Mississippi athletic commission , confirmed : ‘ Since the fight with Holyfield , his eye has completely healed . |
| 22 | Her route into publishing was a ‘ pretty ghastly ’ secretarial course in London , which led to what was then BPC , as secretary to the chairman of the Macdonald Educational group , David da Cunha . |
| 23 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 24 | In addition to government leaders and representatives , those present included Sir Shridath ( Sonny ) Ramphal , chairman of the West Indian Commission and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth , and representatives from regional non-governmental , employers ' and trade union organizations . |
| 25 | His position was filled by the former chair of the board , Detlev Rohwedder , who was succeeded as chair by Jens Odenwald , chairman of the West German Kaufhof retail stores chain . |
| 26 | On June 29 Detlev Rohwedder , chairman of the West German engineering group Hoesch , was appointed chair of the Treuhandanstalt , the body created in March to oversee the privatization of the 8,000 state-owned industries in East Germany [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 27 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 28 | Gaidar Aliyev , chairman of the Nakhichevan Supreme Majlis ( Council ) , denounced the action of the fighters as an attempted coup . |
| 29 | Khalid al-Hassan , a member of the central committee of Al-Fatah ( the largest group within the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO ) and chairman of the Palestine National Council 's foreign affairs committee , was reported on Dec. 19 to have been stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship . |
| 30 | David Clarke , general manager of the Caledonian Hotel , Edinburgh , has been appointed chairman of the Edinburgh Principal Hoteliers Association . |