Example sentences of "be chairman of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 2 | Although in poor health in 1912 , he accepted an offer to be chairman of the delegates to the Congress of the Deaf in Paris 1912 on their visit to London and entertained them lavishly . |
| 3 | She is a human whirlwind , especially at home in Sacriston where under her own name of Brenda Woods she combines her role as mother-of-two with being chairman of the governors of two schools in the village , organising charity events and entertaining in the clubs . |
| 4 | In addition , he is chairman of the trustees of the Science museum and pro-chancellor of Surrey University . |
| 5 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 6 | Cayley was chairman of the directors of the scheme , which was executed by the engineer William Chapman [ q.v. ] , who developed a novel system using drainage ditches parallel to the main river channels . |
| 7 | From 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the faculty board of history and from 1962 to his death he was chairman of the governors of the Cambridge Institute of Education . |
| 8 | He was chairman of the Friends of Glenalmond and , having been a strong supporter of the Territorial Army , had recently been appointed Honorary Colonel of 32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment ( V ) . |
| 9 | From nineteen seventy three to nineteen ninety two he was Chairman of the Charities Committee of the Yacht Clubs of Weymouth and played a leading part in organizing forty eight championships including fourteen R Y A Weymouth olympic weeks as well as twelve world and European championships . |
| 10 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |