Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] president [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the man who became President of the National Deaf Club in 1909 and held the position for over thirty years . |
| 2 | Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase . |
| 3 | , George Robert ( 1847–1922 ) , writer , was born at 8 Newton Terrace , Kennington , London , 2 September 1847 , the eldest of the six children of George Sims , wine merchant , cabinet manufacturer , and plate-glass factor , and his wife Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson , who became president of the Women 's Provident League . |
| 4 | One of two new ministers of state , José Ignacio Moreno Leon , who became president of the Venezuelan Investment Fund , was also a COPEI politician ( and , like Calderón Bertí , a former Minister of Petrol ) . |
| 5 | The then Prime Minister of Turkey , Turgut Özal , ( who became President in November 1989 ) visited Spain on Sept. 14-15 , 1989 , accompanied by a party of about 30 businesspeople . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |