Example sentences of "he [was/were] a director " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The appointment of any alternate Director shall terminate if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed vacates his office as Director and upon the happening of any even which , if he were a Director , would cause him to vacate such office . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The appointment of any alternate Director shall terminate if and when the Director by whom he has been appointed vacates his office as Director and upon the happening of any even which , if he were a Director , would cause him to vacate such office . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) An alternate Director shall ( except when absent from the United Kingdom ) be entitled to receive notice of meetings of the Directors and shall be entitled to attend and vote as a Director at any such meeting at which the Director appointing him is personally present and generally at such meeting to perform all functions of his appointor as a Director and for the purpose of the proceedings at such meeting the provisions of these Articles shall apply as if he were a Director . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] . |
| 7 | Mr Franklin went there at the end of the 1970s , after the collapse of Keyser Ullman , the merchant bank where he was a director that was rescued by the Bank of England . |
| 8 | Piers Fitzwilliams , 29 , of Pilley , Lymington , Hampshire , had been accused of four offences of dealing in shares in Centreway Industries while he was a director of corporate finance group City and Westminster Financial . |
| 9 | He was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and in 1837 he was involved in C. R. Cockerell 's construction of their new headquarters in Lothbury , but it was with his railway work , which he obtained through his important financial connections , that he was particularly prolific . |
| 10 | When he was a director of Sotheby 's he would bicycle into work each day . |
| 11 | Although Leonard did not have a contract with the company , he was a director for life . |
| 12 | The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened . |
| 13 | He introduced a scheme in a firm which he was a director . |
| 14 | He was a director of Macmillan for ten years , first running their secondary schools division and then becoming Group Electronic Publishing Director . |
| 15 | He was a director of the North Eastern Railway . |
| 16 | In 1892 he began an involvement with Earls Court , by laying out the grounds for the international horticultural exhibition ; but the industrial exhibition of 1894 , of which he was a director , was a financial failure , and Milner made himself responsible for some of the debts . |
| 17 | Allhusen 's business interests were varied ; he was a director of the Marine Insurance Co. , the Northfleet Coal & Ballast Co. , the Brazil Great Southern Railway , the British Land & Mortgage Co. of America , the International Bank of London , the New Oriental Bank Corporation , the Metropole Hotel Co. , and the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Co . |
| 18 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 19 | In McHugh ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 385 ( CA ) , the accused used money of a company of which he was a director to pay off the debts of subsidiary companies , of which he was also a director . |
| 20 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 21 | Mr Fitzgerald said there was an affidavit before the court from a journalist to whom Mr Hoogstraaten had admitted that he was a director of De Alnie Property Holdings , the company which owned the house . |
| 22 | From 1980 to 1984 he was a director of the information and entertainment division of Pearson and then from 1984 to 1989 , managing director of Richard Branson 's Virgin Group . |
| 23 | Peter Runciman , 64 , said he was a director and executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan at the time but was now retired from full-time work . |