Example sentences of "was president " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was President of FISA ( Federation Internationale des Societes d'Aviron ) , the world governing body , for 30 years ; and most of this body 's attitudes and practices reflect the force of his strict , but genial personality . |
| 2 | He sat on the appropriate boards of the International Olympic Committee and was President of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations for 17 years . |
| 3 | Backing is being sought from influential colleagues including Sir John Kingman , Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University , who was president of the RSS until earlier this year , and Professor Peter Moore , former principal of the London Business School , the current RSS president . |
| 4 | The jesus man had a first class in history behind him , and a first class with distinction in English Literature behind him , and was president of the university mountaineering club . |
| 5 | He was president of the Institute of Petroleum from 1968 to 1970 and president of the UK Petroleum Industries Association from 1979 to 1980 . |
| 6 | From 1982 to 1983 , he was president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies . |
| 7 | It was a glittering occasion , their 150th anniversary , and Charles was president . |
| 8 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 9 | Before stepping unrepentantly down ( in 1989 ) , he entrenched himself as commander of the army for six further years , intending thus to protect the criminals who had done the dirty work while he was president . |
| 10 | He was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when Whittaker Chambers , a renegade and self-confessed Communist ‘ spy ’ then on the staff of Time magazine , accused him of having passed him documents from the State Department during the late 1930s . |
| 11 | Mitchell , now 27 , was president of OUDS at Oxford . |
| 12 | He played a vital role in setting up the Australian National Trust , and was president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . |
| 13 | I was stunned : evidently this was the same Sir Simon Gourlay who , before his knighthood , was president of the NFU . |
| 14 | He was president of the county in 1964 and 1965 and was honorary secretary for 26 years until his death . |
| 15 | He had been Club Captain from 1914–1916 and was President from 1920–23 . |
| 16 | David Ricalde Rios was President of the Asociacion por la Conservacion de la Selva Sur ( ACSS ) . |
| 17 | Terry Ahue worked as a lifeguard at Pipeline and was President of the Hui o he'enalu . |
| 18 | As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation . |
| 19 | Charles Friedel from the Sorbonne was president of the organising committee of the conference and put ‘ the study of the reforms to be brought to the nomenclature of organic chemistry ’ on the agenda . |
| 20 | This young man later persuaded me to arrange and present a series of music appreciation talks every Monday evening for the Baptist Young People 's Group of which he was president . |
| 21 | Alf Jacobson was President , Roy Dunlop Vice-President and Carson Buchanan Secretary-Treasurer . |
| 22 | Sir Thomas , born in 1838 , had been a pupil of Sir Charles Lanyon and was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1900 . |
| 23 | From 1895–1897 he was President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . |
| 24 | Grey was President of the Institute for twenty-four years , until his death in 1859 , the longest tenure of office of all the Presidents . |
| 25 | His first book , Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages , appeared in 1848 , and in 1849 the Society of Arts , of which Prince Albert was President , commissioned him to write a report on the eleventh Paris Exhibition . |
| 26 | Parker , an Oxford publisher and bookseller , and writer of some popular architectural books , was President of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society . |
| 27 | Sir Joseph , botanist and explorer , with an interest in plants of agricultural importance , was president of the Royal Society for 42 years . |
| 28 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 29 | She was president of Hampshire Association of Youth Clubs and chairman of the Hampshire Probation Committee . |
| 30 | In spite of his opposition to the aims and ideals of the N.D.D.S. and the B.D.D.A. , S. Bright Lucas did sterling work for the deaf and dumb poor of London and was a considerable influence in the founding of the National Deaf Club of which he was President . |