Example sentences of "then chairman [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Massingberd-Mundy , then chairman of the panel and a local steward since 1970 , claimed the stewards ' secretary , Major Peter Steveney , threatened to report him to the Jockey Club if he stuck to his personal view that both horses should be disqualified . |
| 2 | Massingberd-Mundy complained to Lord Vestey , then chairman of the Club 's disciplinary committee , about Steveney 's remark . |
| 3 | In many areas , it took the full weight of Paisley 's authority , exercised either directly or through loyal supporters such as Gordon Cooke , then chairman of the North Antrim branch , to persuade the Protestant Unionists to dissolve in favour of the new organization . |
| 4 | This was the opinion of Sir Harold Shearman , then Chairman of the Greater London Council , in 1965 when he recalled the selection of Frank Jacques as George Pateman 's successor as District Secretary in July 1935 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Conference Sunday , Mr England was welcomed to his home church by his former neighbour , Mr R J Magowan , then Chairman of the Urban District Council and later first Mayor of Portadown . |
| 7 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 8 | Chamberlain was broadly sympathetic to the town planning and garden city movements , and his committee included G.L. Pepler , town planner from the Ministry of Health , and Capt. R.L. Reiss , then Chairman of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association . |
| 9 | Retiring in 1959 after a year 's extension , Macpherson continued to be active in public life , as chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd. ( 1962–7 ) , deputy and then chairman of the Basildon Development Corporation ( 1960–7 ) , vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth and the Royal African Societies , and , from 1962 , vice-chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards for consultants . |
| 10 | As John Payne was then chairman of the East India Company and his brother Edward a director of the Bank of England , Smith & Payne , almost from its commencement , was a prestigious house that could attract the correspondence of other country banks and desirable town and country business . |
| 11 | The Acting Librarian Mr I. D. McGowan read a message dictated by Professor Roberts to be read on this occasion , and Mr M. F. Strachan , then Chairman of the Board of Trustecs , gave a moving address , before inviting guests ‘ to meet , talk and refresh ourselves as Denis wished ’ . |
| 12 | A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |