Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | For we understand that Dexter — the man who sacked David Gower — is set to go as chairman of selectors . |
| 2 | Mr Shute is assuming the chairmanship of Ross from Ross Marks , the company 's 37-year-old founder , who will remain as chairman of the consumer electronics operations and a director of the group . |
| 3 | Maurice Saatchi will remain as chairman . |
| 4 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 5 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 6 | Britain 's most famous ticket-broker said he will defy all his critics and remain as chairman , and claimed his problems were down to the media . |
| 7 | ‘ I think if the clause received royal assent I would not wish to continue as chairman . ’ |
| 8 | They still often continue , in the capacity of Custos Rotulorum , to be the senior magistrate in the county and usually sit as chairman of the committee which recommends the names of new justices of the peace to the Lord Chancellor , a partial explanation for the dull , middle-class nature of the magistracy . |
| 9 | Bishop Crowley appointed as Chairman of CAFOD in 1988 . |
| 10 | David Coleridge announced that he will resign as chairman of Lloyd 's at the end of the year . |
| 11 | Erm , and it was so , it 's obviously as good as it was , you know , I think you could resign as chairman , if actually at all , so . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Non-executive director John Evans will act as chairman until a permanent successor is found . |
| 15 | Finally , June announced that Beryl Smith had resigned as Chairman of the Training Committee to take some sabbatical leave . |
| 16 | Richard Lines , executive chairman of chemicals company ITM , has resigned as chairman of Teesside Polytechnic . |
| 17 | CHRISTOPHER Heath , once the UK 's highest paid businessman , has resigned as chairman of Baring Securities , which he founded . |
| 18 | ALRESFORD Mothers ' Union members were welcomed to their March meeting by Pat Ruffle , deputising for chairman Barbara Jones . |
| 19 | Sir John Sparrow has been reappointed as chairman of the Levy Board for another three years . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , he looks like chairman material , does n't he ? ’ |
| 21 | It falls on the whole rheme or part of it ; for example , in John was appointed Chairman , the tonic accent will normally fall on Chairman : |
| 22 | I am writing as Chairman of Darlington Business Venture and Darlington Enterprise Association Ltd to ensure people are not taken in . |
| 23 | Dr. Eric Ashby , vice-chancellor of Queens University , Belfast , was named as chairman ; one of his advantages was that he had avoided publicising his personal views on adult education in the past , although he later emerged as a staunch defender of voluntaryism and a critic of those university extra-mural departments which had expanded by lowering standards . |
| 24 | On Jan. 22 , the day after the Supreme Court 's decision , Don Nickles , a Republican senator from Oklahoma and a renowned opponent of abortion , was named as chairman of the 1992 Republican platform committee . |
| 25 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 26 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 27 | Hisashi Shinto , 80 , one of Japan 's most senior industrialists , was on Oct. 9 given a suspended prison sentence of two years for having accepted bribes in the Recruit shares-for-influence scandal whilst serving as chairman of the privatized Nippon Telephone and Telegraph ( NTT ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Few meetings of more than three people work successfully without someone acting as chairman . |
| 30 | 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 . |