Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piracy is widespread throughout the developing world , ’ said Sir Roger Elliott , who , in addition to his presidential duties , is chairman of a PA working party set up to explore ways in which copyright can be tailored to the need of the new technologies , in particular electrocopying . |
| 2 | Demonstrators in the capital , Tiraspol , demanded the release by Sept. 3 of the chairman of the Dnestr Supreme Soviet , Igor Smirnov , who had been arrested in Kiev on Aug. 29 by the Moldavan Interior Ministry for suspected support of the coup . |
| 3 | SIR PETER LEVENE , chairman of the Docklands Light Railway , and former chief of Defence Procurement , was yesterday appointed as adviser on efficiency to the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Doje Cering , a 52-year-old ethnic Tibetan , resigned as Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region on May 20 , ostensibly on the grounds of ill-health ; he was replaced on May 31 by Gyainvain Norbu . |
| 5 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 6 | Dr Arne Ljungqvist , chairman of the IAAF Medical Commission , suggested in Stockholm yesterday that he was confused by the decision . |
| 7 | He has also been a non-executive chairman of Cable $ Wireless , chairman of the North American Advisor ) , Group , chairman of the Man-made Fibre Producers Committee and chairman of the European Synthetic Fibre Manufacturers . |
| 8 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 9 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI smaller firms council , said : ‘ The CBI are delighted to support the initiative that both Kall Kwik and Grant Thornton have taken in producing their booklet . |
| 10 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ This survey shows that smaller firms ’ optimism has weakened over the last four months . |
| 11 | Manchester 's attempts to stage the 1996 Olympic Games are being hindered by British sport 's two-faced approach to South Africa , said Sam Ramsamy , chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee , at a civic reception in Manchester yesterday , writes Michael Morris . |
| 12 | Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa , in his capacity as current chairman of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , visited member states in September and October ahead of the SAARC summit scheduled for December . |
| 13 | Jack Kelly , chairman of the Sigma 33 class , has responded to my comments in the December ‘ Silver Salmon ’ column on the Genesis No 1 genoa trials with a full letter setting out his own thoughts and the class thinking behind the trials and consideration of the new sails : |
| 14 | The group is called Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company and er corny is n't it . |
| 15 | You get a prize for telling us it 's Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company . |
| 16 | All said Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company . |
| 17 | Peter Fitzgerald , one of the largest manufacturing employers in the county and chairman of the Cornwall economic forum , has emphasised the importance to local business of Cornwall having its own M E P . |
| 18 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 19 | MIKE Stanbury , chairman of the East Anglian Railway Museum , receives a cheque from new museum sponsors Allan Chapman & James , director Terry Austin . |
| 20 | In East Berlin Havel held talks with Manfred Gerlach , acting Chairman of the East German Council of State ( head of state ) . |
| 21 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |
| 22 | Finally , I would also thank Professor James Murray , Vice-Principal , and lan Muir , Chairman of the Enterprise Steering Committee for the tremendous support and enthusiasm that they have given to the work of the Enterprise Centre . |
| 23 | Stuart Bray , Chairman of the Standard 4 Locomotive Group stated that there was still a number of small jobs to do during the winter including completion of the lining locomotive . |
| 24 | On March 28 , 1990 , Ervin Knowles resigned as Minister of Agriculture , Trade and Industry after being accused by members of the parliamentary opposition of corruption and nepotism in his role as chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation ( BAIC ) . |
| 25 | He was a highly respected member of the panel of arbiters and was the founder chairman of the Kelso Agricultural Discussion Society . |
| 26 | Lord Goold announced his resignation as chairman of the orchestra last autumn . |
| 27 | He is Chairman of the London Regional Passengers ' Committee and Chairman of the educationist , consumer champion , author and Health and Social Welfare Sector Programme broadcaster . |
| 28 | " Sir Geoffrey is chairman of the London Metropolitan Bank , the biggest of the clearing banks . " |
| 29 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 30 | In the context of the May 1990 preliminary talks between the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the government [ see p. 37440 ] , two other notable encounters between the nationalist movement and the white establishment occurred in the same month : ( i ) on May 23 the ANC met liberal representatives of the business community in Johannesburg , during which ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela , in what was seen as an attempt to reassure investors , declared that the ANC did not have a blueprint for nationalization ; at the conclusion of the conference , with the former chairman of the company Anglo American , Gavin Relly , he emphasized the need to abolish institutionalized inequalities and to redistribute resources equally ; and ( ii ) on May 24 fighters from the ANC 's armed wing and members of the ANC national executive committee ( NEC ) met with retired and serving officers of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , military conscripts and , among others , members of the End Conscription Campaign at a conference in Lusaka , the Zambian capital ; these discussions included the structure and role of a post-apartheid defence force . |