Example sentences of "act as chairman " in BNC.

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1 It is convenient that , in addition to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence , the Cabinet should include at least one , and preferably two , Ministers without Departmental duties who can act as Chairman of Standing Committees .
2 In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion .
3 Non-executive director John Evans will act as chairman until a permanent successor is found .
4 With the company 's founder , Toshio Sumino , still acting as chairman and president , and owning 16% of the firm , Autobacs is the sort of entrepreneurial company investors like .
5 Few meetings of more than three people work successfully without someone acting as chairman .
6 At a Panel Hearing , the three panel members selected from a pool of serving members , one acting as chairman of the session , consider everything about a child 's life .
7 It is also one of the major voices in the industry , with John Chance acting as chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors ’ Opencast Coal Committee for the last two years .
8 James Dunn , an official in the State Department who acted as chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee , informed Brigadier-General George Lincoln of the Operations Division that it was desirable that as much of Korea as possible be occupied .
9 In 1902 he was appointed associate professor of railway engineering at the University of Liverpool , and from 1908 to 1915 he acted as chairman of the faculty of engineering .
10 Wright acted as Chairman with two principals , John Haddon and Samuel Davis , and these three were probably the founder members .
11 In July 1988 he received a letter from Lord Vestey saying his name was withdrawn from the rotating list of those qualified to act as chairman .
12 When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’
13 Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project .
14 Mrs Janet Buchanan Smith as agreed to act as chairman .
15 The project leader , who will be one of these two representatives , is likely to act as chairman of the development team .
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