Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have held the " in BNC.

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1 Derek Foster , who has held the Commons chief whip post for four years , is being challenged by Ron Davies , the MP for Caerphilly .
2 But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’
3 JOHN Ockenden , chairman of Data Logic , has been appointed chairman of the National Computing Centre , succeeding Dr John Ashworth of the London School of Economics who has held the post since June 1983 .
4 He takes over this month from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , who has held the post for two years .
5 He replaces Dominic Gattuso who has held the post temporarily and returns to the database company 's Emeryville , California-based headquarters as vice president of worldwide business operations .
6 Delegates from Austria , Belgium , France , Great Britain , Ireland , Holland , Germany , South Africa , Switzerland , the US and Italy will take part and as new president will be voted in this year to succeed Andrew Hill who has held the post for twenty years .
7 He takes over from Jenny Goddard who has held the post since 1989 , and who leaves to set up a new careers service at the College of Law .
8 Alfie Collis , who has held the full-time post for 14 years , is retiring in September .
9 Uncertainty over the future of Mr Peterken , who has held the senior post since 1986 , comes at a time when the board , the largest in Scotland , is facing major changes .
10 But this time Carlos Sainz , who had held the lead since Tuesday , came third in a Toyota .
11 But who had held the syringe over Rose , and why ?
12 Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants .
13 Elected by the FEE General Assembly last December , he took over from Edouard Salustro of France who had held the position for two years .
14 Also at the meeting , Zhao Ziyang , who had held the post of Premier temporarily since the downfall of Hu Yaobang , was appointed to the position of Party General Secretary .
15 They appointed Simpkin arbitrarily , ignoring the incumbent , English school teacher Jim Rowark , a man who had held the hot spot for five seasons .
16 For the Crown he made the two tilt-yard towers at Greenwich from 1516 and on 12 September 1519 received the office of king 's master mason jointly with Vertue , who had held the position since 1510 .
17 He replaced Madhavsinh Solanki of Congress ( I ) , who had held the post since early December 1989 [ see p. 37125 ] .
18 Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as the BJP Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla of Congress ( I ) who had held the post since early December [ ibid . ] .
19 Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December .
20 Gen. Rafael Antonio Villamariona was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force in place of Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo who had held the post for a decade according to the Latin American Weekly Report of Feb. 1 , 1990 .
21 Fernando Manfredo assumed the post of acting administrator of the Panama Canal on Jan. 1 , 1990 , in succession to Gen. ( retd ) Dennis P. McAuliffe , who had held the post since 1979 .
22 Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) R. S. Dyal , hitherto Lt.-Governor of Pondicherry , was appointed Lt.-Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Romesh Bhandari who had held the post since December 1989 .
23 She replaced Günther Maleuda who had held the post since November 1989 [ see p. 37025 ] .
24 A constitutional amendment was approved abolishing the State Council and providing for the election of a State President ; on an interim basis , Bergmann-Pohl assumed the post of acting head of state on April 9 ( replacing Manfred Gerlach who had held the post since December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) .
25 In Kazakhstan on April 24 the new Supreme Soviet re-elected as its Chairman the Kazakh CP first secretary Nursultan Nazarbayev , who had held the post since Feb. 22 .
26 The two key economic portfolios went to Georgios Souflias , who had held the Finance portfolio in the previous government , and Yannis Palaiokrassas , the ND campaign manager .
27 His Democratic opponent in the election in October would be Bennet Johnston who had held the seat for 18 years .
28 Grigorios Farakos was unanimously elected to replace Florakis , who had held the post since 1973 [ see also p. 26781 ] .
29 She replaced Gordon McLennan , who had held the post since 1975 [ see p. 27068 ] .
30 The departure of Bra Kanon , who had held the post since 1977 , had been expected because of difficulties affecting the cocoa and coffee sectors .
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