Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] hold the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1474 he held the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex , and was Mayor of London in 1482–83 — the 200th Mayor of the City , and the eleventh Goldsmith to hold the honour . |
| 2 | The sixth person to hold the post and the first from the African continent , he would succeed Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on Jan. 1 , 1992 . |
| 3 | Pardo , the first civilian to hold the post for 35 years , stated that his appointment implied " a political handling and responsibility in the Defence Ministry " and was the result of " an important political change that is made evident in the new constitution " . |
| 4 | In June 1965 she was appointed Vice Principal of Howard Institute , the first woman to hold the position . |
| 5 | Mrs Hillaby , the first woman to hold the post , is at least the fourth generation of the family to carry on the tradition . |
| 6 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 7 | Papariga , 47 , the first woman to hold the post of general secretary , was chosen by the newly elected central committee , on which the " conservatives " had won 60 seats and the reformists 51 . |
| 8 | Miguel Rodríguez , who was appointed as president of the Central Bank only in February , resigned on April 1 and was replaced by Ruth de Krivoy , the first woman to hold the post . |
| 9 | Following the emphatic victory of his United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) in the April 27 general election [ see p. 38859 ] , Prime Minister John Compton appointed a new Cabinet on May 4 , which contained five new ministers , including Lorraine Williams , the first woman to hold the post of Attorney General . |
| 10 | Narrowly victorious in a mudslinging campaign , Mrs Richards — a divorced mother of four — became the first woman to hold the office since 1935 . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer announced on Feb. 11 that the mayor of Auckland , Dame Cath Tizard , would become New Zealand 's next Governor-General on Nov. 20 , 1990 , the first woman to hold the office . |
| 12 | ( Note : usually this means a second or subsequent mortgage , the first mortgagee holding the title deeds as his security. ) ( ii ) Any equitable charge acquired by a tenant for life or statutory owner under any Finance or other Act by reason of the discharge by him of any inheritance tax or other liabilities to which special priority is given by the statute ( a " limited owner 's charge " ) . |
| 13 | He was Pakistan 's first Punjabi Prime Minister and the first industrialist to hold the office , breaking with the tradition of filling the post with a member of the powerful ( and generally Sindhi ) landowning classes . |
| 14 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Assembly , comprising legislators from 16 member countries , elected Loïc Bouvard of France as president on Nov. 19 ; Bouvard , 63 , the first Frenchman to hold the post in 33 years , was elected for a two-year term to succeed Charles Rose , a member of the US Congress . |
| 15 | Jacques Bussières , a Canadian , was appointed as governor of the Bank of Zambia ( central bank ) with effect from January 1990 , the first foreigner to hold the post . |
| 16 | Some computers have room in the instruction to specify a third accumulator to hold the result , giving the effect of a three-address instruction restricted to the accumulator array . |
| 17 | On 14 February there was a third attempt to hold the election . |
| 18 | He will be the third person to hold the job at the 53-year-old company , reportedly selected after a two-year process . |
| 19 | Mike Moore became Prime Minister of New Zealand on Sept. 4 , after being elected leader of the ruling Labour Party ; he became the third person to hold the post in the space of 13 months . |
| 20 | She then tries to get as much as she can while a third person holds the mirror . |
| 21 | The last Briton to hold the world mile record , WG George in 1886 with a time of 4min 12 ¾sec , was at Motspur Park on August 28 to watch Wooderson 's attempt . |
| 22 | The last Briton to hold the world title was Bob Fitzsimmons , who reigned between 1897-1899 . |