Example sentences of "chairman of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Robert Jackson , who is retiring as chairman of the Victorian History Society in the town , said a folk museum would complement The Bowes Museum while providing residents and tourists with a history of Barnard Castle . |
| 2 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 3 | And very much more recently , Lord Shuttleworth who is the chairman of the rural development commission , and this he said actually on the sixteenth of November this year , said , There is a severe lack of affordable housing in the countryside which obviously does n't improve the situation . |
| 4 | US officials insist that Washington is not pushing the idea , but confirmed that it will be a topic of conversation when the chairman of the Federal Reserve , Alan Greenspan , visits Moscow this weekend . |
| 5 | The subject is expected to be on the agenda when the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , Alan Greenspan , becomes the first US central bank chief to visit Moscow this weekend . |
| 6 | The fate of the rouble , rather than British interest rates , was the main topic of Mrs Thatcher 's talk with the chairman of the Federal Reserve , Mr Alan Greenspan , during her recent Washington visit . |
| 7 | The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , who inherited supervisory responsibilities as part of the rescue plan , now admits the problem could costs tens of billions more than anticipated . |
| 8 | It is also besmirching the reputation of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , who was peripherally involved . |
| 9 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 10 | Alan Greenspan , the chairman of the Federal Reserve , is worried about the sharp slowdown in monetary growth . |
| 11 | The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board recently warned that a three month war in the Gulf would send the US economy into depression . |
| 12 | He was greeted by President Vaclav Havel , Marian Calfa , the Federal Prime Minister , and Alexander Dubcek , Chairman of the Federal Assembly . |
| 13 | The related issue of inflation and interest rates led to some disagreement on fiscal policy between Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , and the Bush administration . |
| 14 | Jan Ruml , the federal Deputy Interior Minister , issued on June 6 a statement accusing Josef Bartoncik , chairman of the People 's Party and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Assembly , of being " an unprincipled man who is trying to hide his past " , and who was therefore unfit to be a deputy in the future Federal Assembly . |
| 15 | At the first joint session of both chambers of the Federal Assembly on June 27 , Alexander Dubcek was re-elected Chairman of the Federal Assembly . |
| 16 | Alexander Dubcek , chairman of the Federal Assembly , resigned as a member of Public Against Violence ( VPN , the senior party in the Slovak ruling coalition ) on July 21 , because the party which he co-founded had " abandoned centrist policies " . |
| 17 | In December 1974 the Democratic caucus in the House took the momentous step of agreeing to an automatic secret ballot election for all committee chairmen and went on to remove W. R. Poage , the chairman of the Agriculture Committee , F. Edward Hebert , chairman of the Armed Services Committee , and Wright Patman of the Banking Committee |
| 18 | The chairman of the fund-raising committee Heather Scott promised yesterday that she would make sure that every penny would be spent on the new unit . |
| 19 | However , he managed to become chairman of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee as well as of the 1922 committee of back-benchers from which position he played a key role in Heath 's downfall as part of the Milk Street gang ( named after the street of his very minor merchant bank , Keyser Ullmann ) . |
| 20 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 21 | Dr Bernard Tinker , chairman of the Environmental Change Network steering committee , commented ‘ It is only through long-term observation of sensitive indicators that we can begin to distinguish genuine trends from short-term fluctuations . |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 23 | The chairman of the environmental committee , Ken Collins , described the Commission as " uninspiring , uninteresting and unconvincing " , and warned that " the cost of not integrating environmental policy " into Community activities could result in pollution on the scale suffered by Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | John Foster , the council 's chief executive officer , was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the environmental panel of Solace , The Society of Local Authority Chief Executives . |
| 25 | In January 1990 George Thambiraja , an EPRLF leader in Trincomalee , deputy chairman of the Provincial Council and a founder of the TNA , was killed in an ambush , followed by the killing of the deputy Speaker of the Provincial Council , S. G. Ganeshamoorthy . |
| 26 | The provincial Assembly in Kosovo on May 23 refused the resignation of Jusuf Zejnulahu , the President of the Kosovo Executive Council [ see p. 37382 , where he is incorrectly described as Chairman of the provincial Assembly ] , and of nine other ethnic-Albanian members of his government . |
| 27 | Sir Nicholas Goodison , the former chairman of the International Stock Exchange , once appeared on television 's Jim 'll Fix it to hang a badge around a small child 's neck . |
| 28 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 29 | He was chairman of the International Maritime Bureau ( of the International Chamber of Commerce ) from 1981 to 1985 . |
| 30 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |