Example sentences of "president of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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31 An Executive Committee decision to nominate Arafat as President of the State of Palestine and Farouk Qaddumi as Foreign Minister was endorsed by the Central Council in April 1989 .
32 Peter Naylor , past vice president of the Institute of Personnel Management and an advocate of legislation , believes that marginalisation of older workers is unlikely to be eliminated simply by exhorting the worth of the people aged 50 and over .
33 He was president of the Institute of Petroleum from 1968 to 1970 and president of the UK Petroleum Industries Association from 1979 to 1980 .
34 President of the Institute of Metals in 1938–40 , he was awarded their platinum medal in 1941 .
35 Two years later Mawson became the first president of the Institute of Landscape Architecture .
36 He was a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents , council member for the London Chamber of Commerce , president of the Institute of Fuel , and a member of the royal commission on decimal coinage .
37 He was president of the Institute of Chemistry from 1883 to 1888 .
38 Tilden was president of the Institute of Chemistry ( 1891–4 ) and of the Chemical Society ( 1903–5 ) .
39 Here they will be interviewed by judges Neil Harle ( Network Support manager , Midland Bank ) , Linda Kelsey ( SHE 's editor ) , Roy Filling OBE ( president of the Institute of Business Counsellors ) and Jean Watkins ( head of the Centre for Access and Career Development , Dorset Business School ) .
40 He served on the council of the Chemical Society and was president of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1886–7 ) and of the Institute of Chemistry ( 1903–6 ) .
41 He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery .
42 Since that time Sakharov has been deprived of the medical care which he requires , Sakharov 's friends wrote about this to Anatoly Alexandrov , president of the Academy of Sciences , in January 1982 , but they received no reply .
43 Domokos Kosary was elected president of the Academy of Sciences on May 24 , 1990 .
44 She fixed me with a look of vengeance and demanded the home phone number of the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures .
45 Founder of one of the most successful fashion houses in Paris , he is also founder and President of the Syndicate of Designers and Creators of Ready-to-Wear which brought haute couture into the open market place , particularly in America .
46 The outgoing Foreign Minister , Adrian Nastase , was elected president of the Assembly of Deputies .
47 The Windsor whose marriage has caused more intrigue than most poked fun at the speculation with his light-hearted remarks as president of the Court of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre .
48 THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business .
49 , James Latham Mcdiarmid , Lord Clyde ( 1898–1975 ) , lord justice-general of Scotland and lord president of the Court of Session , was born 30 October 1898 at 17 Heriot Row , Edinburgh , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of James Avon Clyde [ q.v. ] , later lord justice-general of Scotland , and his wife Anna Margaret McDiarmid , daughter of Professor Peter Wallwork Latham of Cambridge [ q.v . ] .
50 Last autumn , lord president of the Court of Session , suddenly announced he was forming a working party under to examine how to improve the handling of commercial cases and to make their hearing speedier and more convenient to litigants .
51 Following a report made to the President of the Court of Session , television is being introduced in a controlled way in the higher courts in Scotland .
52 As president of the Court of Appeal his view on the proper relationship between the Executive government and the individual , including powerful private organizations , is crucial .
53 The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ .
54 Butler became President of the Board of Education in July and saw the purpose of a discussion on the Book as being ‘ to sound for shoals , as it were ’ .
55 R. A. Butler , as president of the Board of Education , was the principal guest .
56 He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) .
57 In 1916 , H. A. L. Fisher , the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University , was appointed President of the Board of Education , with the promise that ‘ money would be found for ambitious educational measures ’ .
58 This interdepartmental Committee on the Medical Inspection and Feeding of Children Attending Public Elementary Schools was appointed in March 1905 and was , in the words of the minister responsible , Lord Londonderry , ( President of the Board of Education ) not to be ‘ at liberty to make far-reaching proposals that the Unionist party would decline to support ’ .
59 Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . "
60 For example , in December 1938 Ben Smith , MP , wrote to the Board of Education warning that on the evidence of the evacuation rehearsals of September 1938 there would be a sufficient number of ill-clad or poorly-shod children to hinder the successful operation of the scheme ; but in reply the President of the Board of Education , Earl de la Warr , blandly denied that this would be so .
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