Example sentences of "who was [verb] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference delegates were severely critical of Denis Sassou-Nguesso , who was to remain President , but with greatly reduced executive powers , during the transitional period . |
| 2 | Continuity was nevertheless provided not only by Allan Hayhurst but by Dr Eric Stanley Greenaway , who was elected President at the Edinburgh Congress in 1959 , having been a Vice-President of the Association since 1953 . |
| 3 | The agreement initially had the support of the leader of the Comité de forces vives , Albert Zafy , who was named president of the High Authority . |
| 4 | To put teeth into it , Pomgol was chaired by M. I. Kalinin , who was to become president of the newly formed USSR in December 1922 . |
| 5 | One of the few salutary notes in the debate was provided by the Labour Party spokesman , Roy Jenkins ( who was to become President of the EEC Commission in the late 1970s ) , who said , |