Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his twenty years of more or less full-time business Stanley Baldwin became a Justice of the Peace , the chairman of a board of school managers and a member of the Worcestershire County Council . |
| 2 | He is also chairman of a board of school governors . |
| 3 | The chairman of a company like British Aerospace has to anticipate change on a global scale . |
| 4 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |
| 5 | He took a 40 per cent pay cut , swapped the corporate splendour for a mushroom-coloured Portakabin by the Thames , and installed himself as chairman of a company which makes candles . |
| 6 | Which Home Secretary was chairman of a company belonging to disgraced architect John Poulson ? |
| 7 | I got a call from the Chairman of a company , asking if I would be willing to spend some more time — on learning to use a completely new keyboard used by the then-new British system called Microwriter . |
| 8 | To add to his case , John Holloway has been revealed as the chairman of a company which was fined £45,000 in 1990 after making false declarations in connection with applications for vehicle excise licences . |
| 9 | Mr Mick Gosling , former chairman of a union branch at Dagenham , contests his dismissal , saying he was blacklisted . |
| 10 | On lesser occasions the reply will appear as an answer to a ‘ planted ’ parliamentary question or be simply a letter to the chairman of a committee . |
| 11 | In 1974 Lord Gardiner was appointed chairman of a committee to consider what provisions and powers , consistent to the maximum extent practicable in the circumstances with the preservation of civil liberties and human rights , were required to deal with terrorism and subversion in Northern Ireland , including provisions for the administration of justice ; and to examine the working of the Act of 1973 . |
| 12 | At the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 , she was chairman of a committee of American women which managed to obtain and equip a hospital ship , the Maine ; she sailed to South Africa on its maiden voyage . |
| 13 | Sometimes the chairman of a committee stands down temporarily from the chair in order to express a deeply felt personal view about an issue in which he has an interest . |
| 14 | Mr J. Ferguson , 2 Viewfield Road was appointed chairman of a committee to deal with the matter . |
| 15 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 16 | When Labour is in opposition the chairman of a subject committee is not the relevant shadow minister ; instead the chairman is elected and the election is often another chance for conflict between opposing opinions among Labour MPs . |
| 17 | CLIFF BRUNT , chairman of a Parent-Teacher Association , in Hadleigh , argues that the wrangle has already rendered this summer 's exams worthless . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) The chairman of a licensing board or , in his absence , the clerk of the board may , if a quorum is not present for any such meeting of the board , call a further meeting in place of the meeting not held . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 20 | He is chairman of a number of companies , including K.C.A. Drilling plc , Sherwood International Ltd , Industrial Technology Securities Ltd , and Mullholland Ltd . |
| 21 | He presided over the creation of the British Sugar Corporation , served as its chairman between 1935 and 1949 , and was also chairman of a number of other companies , including the Iraq Petroleum Company between 1941 and 1950 . |
| 22 | The applicant , the chairman of a group of Hong Kong companies which collapsed in 1983 , was charged with various offences arising out of the collapse of which he was eventually acquitted . |
| 23 | Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ? |
| 24 | ‘ Piracy is widespread throughout the developing world , ’ said Sir Roger Elliott , who , in addition to his presidential duties , is chairman of a PA working party set up to explore ways in which copyright can be tailored to the need of the new technologies , in particular electrocopying . |
| 25 | Another Barnet player said : ‘ Why is he chairman of a club , when he clearly hates players ? |
| 26 | When specifically asked if Flashman is fit to be chairman of a club in his League , he said : ‘ I 'm certainly not prepared to answer that question . ’ |
| 27 | Rezzag Bara , chairman of a commission of inquiry into the assassination in June of President Mohammed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 , said on Algerian television on Dec. 10 that the killing had been part of a wider conspiracy serving the interests of radical Moslem movements . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you give this man a job as chairman of a bank ? |
| 29 | The best-placed person is the chairman of a meeting who is able to direct who should speak ( and to stop them ! ) and therefore knows who is speaking on what subject and when . |
| 30 | ( 6 ) A member of a recognised body shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of this Rule and the chairman of a meeting shall not accept any vote tendered in breach of this paragraph or paragraph ( 7 ) of this Rule . |