Example sentences of "[verb] [been] secretary " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which would suggest that it might be rash to release Mr Sisulu , who has been secretary general of the ANC since 1949 , at this stage . |
| 2 | Cooper , painstaking but unassuming , has been secretary since 1978 and now becomes vice-chairman . |
| 3 | David Pearce has been Secretary of the Society for the protection of Ancient Buildings and Timothy Cantell Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 4 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 5 | Stuart Webb , who has been secretary , chairman and managing director during 21 years at Derby was unanimously voted out as associate director after constant conflict with the board . |
| 6 | In the past she has been secretary to Fred Shaw ( company secretary ) , Peter Williams ( finance director and deputy chairman ) , James Moffat ( company director and managing director ) , Paddy Byrne ( chief executive ) before becoming secretary to George Stonier 18 months ago . |
| 7 | Secretary Anne Branch , of College View , Monkwray , who has been with the Company since 1948 and has been secretary to various Managing Directors including the present incumbent Keith Jackson . |
| 8 | Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years . |
| 9 | Chris has been Secretary for Trades Council for ten years , he 's a W E A tutor , that 's his er profession , he 's an organizer , and he organizes courses throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . |
| 10 | Funnily enough , then , but for 296 or so bigoted votes , the Rt Hon RD Kernohan MP might now have been Secretary of State . |
| 11 | Doreen was a well known face on the fourth floor of Stamford House , having been secretary to a succession of board directors since she joined in 1959 . |
| 12 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 13 | George Blake , the MI6 officer who had been secretary of the committee that had planned Operation Gold in 1953 had joined MI6 shortly after the war . |
| 14 | Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture . |
| 15 | He had been secretary of the BRS and when he went on furlough I was asked to take on his duties . |
| 16 | Another book on Burma , published in 1945 , was The Burma We Love , by U Kyaw Min , ICS , who had been secretary to three Premiers of Burma in turn , Dr Ba Maw , U Pu and U Saw , before the evacuation . |
| 17 | U Aung San was succeeded by an intimate and trusted colleague , Thakin Nu , who had been Secretary of the AFPFL . |
| 18 | Elwin Wright , who up until 1937 had been secretary of a respectable Anglo-German Fellowship , advocated the shooting of Jews , called Neville Chamberlain a liar and a traitor and stated that Parliament was a ‘ blackmailing corrupt body of bastards . ’ |
| 19 | A successful businessman , he had been on the Board since 1972 , and had been Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association between 1966 and 1970 , and President in 1972/3 . |
| 20 | Casaroli , 76 , who had been Secretary of State since 1979 [ see p. 29852 ] , was widely regarded as the architect of the Vatican 's " Ostpolitik " , stressing closer ties with eastern Europe and the creation of diplomatic links with the Soviet Union [ see pp. 36830 ; 37129 ; 37258 ; 37394 ; 37899 ] . |
| 21 | Alessandro Natta , who had been secretary of the PCI from June 1984 to June 1988 ( when he had been succeeded by Achille Occhetto — see p. 35989 ) , announced his retirement from active political life in May 1990 . |
| 22 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 23 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 24 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 25 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 26 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 27 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |