Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rev. John Warton , who was himself chairman of a small savings bank , recounts one of his parochial visits : |
| 2 | The aim of this project is to design an experimental , micro computer based , management information system suited to the needs of the Chairman of a small but expanding company . |
| 3 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 4 | Mr Kidd is also chairman of a working party which reports on the state of hotel fire safety across Europe and reviews the effectiveness of existing EC recommendations . |
| 5 | One of the youngest brigadiers in the British Army ; deputy chairman of the Conservative Party ; chairman of a major insurance company ; Warden of Winchester College — these are all solid achievements , but it is safe to guess that until this trial started most people had never heard of him . |
| 6 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 7 | I have to date raised my idea with one of Scotland 's leading corporate lawyers ( a CBI SCOTLAND Council Member ) , a senior cleric involved with the Life & Nation' Committee of the Church of Scotland and the chairman of a major company , seeking their views as potential speakers . |
| 8 | In September he was elected chairman of a new National Co-ordinating Commission of Solidarity , set up by representatives of the regional organizations which had recently come into being . |
| 9 | Roman was endorsed as party leader and Ion Aurel Stoica elected executive chairman of a new steering college , comprising the Cabinet and 15 others chosen by Roman . |
| 10 | For example , while the head of a central government department , the Chief Secretary , is directly responsible to Parliament , the chairman of a nationalized industry is accountable via a sponsoring department . |
| 11 | Changes included a clause to protect joint ventures against nationalization , removal of the stipulation that the chairman of a joint venture should be from the Chinese participant , and greater freedom in setting the contract period . |
| 12 | Thus it is not enough , upon asking the chairman of a state-owned or regulated firm what his objective is , to receive the answer " To run an efficient business ' . |
| 13 | McCarthy , appointed chairman of a powerful Senate sub-committee , stepped up his campaign by attacking the State Department 's radio service , Voice of America , as Communist-influenced . |
| 14 | He was already rich , powerful , successful beyond anything Swift could have given him , and that meant only one thing — he had not married her to become chairman of a vast investment house , because he was already chairman of his own ! |
| 15 | One had served as chairman of a local Soviet through these years , with a canny transformation into starosta ( village elder ) when the White Army appeared briefly . |
| 16 | Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough . |
| 17 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |
| 18 | When you are appointed a chairman of a nationalised industry , you are given clear objectives by your Secretary of State , and you have to see that your immediate colleagues and indeed the whole team are aware of , and are striving to achieve , these objectives . |
| 19 | Reagan , at the beginning of his first term , appointed Vice-President Bush as chairman of a Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief which was made up largely of cabinet members and staffed by the Office of Management and Budget . |
| 20 | ( Gqozo had taken power in Ciskei as chairman of a Military Council in March 1990 — see p. 37305 . |
| 21 | THE juicy news in the cabinet reshuffle announced this week by South Korea 's President Roh Tae Woo was a $1m-plus bribery scandal that involved the arrests of a presidential aide , several legislators and the chairman of a big conglomerate , and the dismissal of the construction minister . |
| 22 | No , no , the present the present one was a I think he was a Chairman of a big building society before he came into the Post Office and they use these are on three year terms , but er the previous Post Office one er spent nine years as Chairman , spent three yea three terms of three years . |
| 23 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 24 | The incoming chairman of a public company can swiftly dispose of dead wood , to arrange a board in sympathy with new policies . |
| 25 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 26 | There are two part-time non-family directors , Fred Cox ( 58 ) , an accountant by training , and Les Thomas ( 68 ) , the retired chairman of a smaller brewery absorbed in 1975 . |
| 27 | I have an ideal picture of a Chairman of a Select Committee who is knowledgeable , takes an overview of the subject and does not hold a strongly party political view , but weighs the evidence in a dispassionate way . |
| 28 | That would give the House the impression of a Chairman of a Select Committee of some stature . |
| 29 | On Sept. 3 Afewerki received a United States congressional delegation , headed by Tony Hall , chairman of a select committee on hunger . |
| 30 | As Chairman of a multi-million pound Company , 38 year old Richard Gabriel from Gloucestershire has to spend alot of time at work . |