Example sentences of "[num] [subord] chair " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 2 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 3 | Six of the Council 's members , namely Kryuchkov , Maslyukov , Primakov , Shevardnadze , Yakovlev and Yazov , were full or candidate members of the CPSU central committee politburo , all of whom except Yakovlev held in addition ministerial or state posts ( although Primakov resigned on March 28 as Chair of the Soviet of the Union in connection with joining the Presidential Council ) . |
| 4 | Semra Özal , wife of the President , was elected on April 28 as chair of the Istanbul section of the ruling Motherland Party ( Anatavan Partisi — ANAP ) , defeating the Islamist candidate Talat Yilmaz . |
| 5 | He had been considered a de facto prime minister since his appointment in May 1990 as chair of an interministerial committee overseeing the economy [ see p. 37445 ] . |