Example sentences of "be [noun] chief [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Paris appeals court ruled on April 13 that Paul Touvier , 77 , who under the wartime Vichy regime had been intelligence chief of the Milice ( pro-Nazi French militia ) in Lyon in 1943-44 , should not stand trial , on grounds of insufficient evidence , on five charges of crimes against humanity .
2 Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta .
3 When , in March 1950 the State Department , under strong Congressional urging , had sent its aid survey mission to Southeast Asia it was headed by Mr R. Allen Griffin , a Californian newspaper publisher and editor , who had been deputy chief of the US Aid Mission to China .
4 Rabin had been army Chief of Staff during the 1967 war , and Prime Minister from 1973 until 1977 , when in April he resigned as the Labour Party 's election candidate for the premiership and the Labour Party lost the ensuing general election [ see pp. 28533-38 ] .
5 He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut .
6 Of those surviving from the previous politburo Le Duc Anh , 71 , was Minister of National Defence and deputy secretary of the Vietnam People 's Army ( VPA ) party commission ; Vo Van Kiet , 69 , First Vice Chair of the Council of Ministers , was a leading reformist ; Dao Duy Tung , 62 , was in charge of ideological , scientific and educational matters ; Doan Khue , 68 , was VPA Chief of General Staff and Deputy Minister of National Defence .
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