Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I particularly value the support of Brian Baldock as my senior executive colleague and Chairman of Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
| 2 | Commending this agreement to his followers , Law was anxious that they recognise the advantage of Lloyd George as an ally , for " at this moment , Mr Lloyd George commands an amount of influence in every constituency as great as has ever been exercised by any Prime Minister " . |
| 3 | There was therefore no dramatic change in the Greek evaluation of Egypt during the Hellenistic period , though the rise of Hermes Trismegistus as a god of knowledge was new . |
| 4 | Nurses in the USA are expecting better time ahead after the election of Bill Clinton as president last week . |
| 5 | The constituent congress of the Movement for Democratic Slovakia ( MFDS ) ended in Banska Bystrica on June 22 with the election of Vladimir Meciar as chairman of the Movement . |
| 6 | The African National Congress ( ANC ) announced on March 2 , at the end of a two-day national executive committee meeting in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , the election of Nelson Mandela as deputy president of the organization . |
| 7 | Following several months of political uncertainty the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) voted on Aug. 3 by 295 votes to 13 in favour of the election of Arpad Göncz as national President . |
| 8 | Many Conservatives were dismayed by the ‘ U-turn ’ in the policies of the Heath Government and this feeling led to the election of Mrs Thatcher as party leader in 1975 . |
| 9 | Rather I wish to use the experience of West Ham as a means to examine the nature of working-class political intervention . |
| 10 | During the hearing , however , Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deanses , gave an undertaking that they would no longer be moving at the meeting for the removal of Mr Johnston as a director . |
| 11 | Just before midnight on 13 May , Massu read the following statement from the balcony of the government building : " We appeal to General de Gaulle , the only man who is capable of heading a Government of Public Safety , above all the parties , in order to ensure the perpetuation of French Algeria as an integral part of France . " |
| 12 | The presence of Barnes Wallis as a consultant guaranteed an innovative approach , but it was n't until the tendering was opened to competition outside the United Kingdom that things really began to move . |
| 13 | Ratners is to intensify its programme of brand differentiation in the wake of dismal Christmas sales and the resignation of Gerald Ratner as chairman . |
| 14 | The resignation of Victoria Chitepo as Minister of Information , Posts and Telecommunications was reported on June 9 ; no replacement was named . |
| 15 | President François Mitterrand reorganized the Cabinet on Oct. 2 as a result of the resignation of Edith Cresson as Minister-Delegate for European Affairs . |
| 16 | On March 12 , after accepting the resignation of Jacek Merkel as Minister of State in charge of defence and national security affairs , Walesa appointed to the post Lech Kaczynski , a key presidential aide and twin brother of Jaroslaw Kaczynski . |
| 17 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 18 | In December it appeared that there were moves within the Army to engineer the resignation of Gen. Pinochet as its Commander-in-Chief . |
| 19 | The resignation of James Callaghan as party leader in November 1 980 added to the party 's disarray . |
| 20 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 21 | It is argued that the year 1960 also saw the recognition of Le Duan as second in the hierarchy to Ho , representing the new generation of leaders . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've based it on the photograph of Rosa Ponselle as La Gioconda . |
| 23 | In 1910 Jebb made his only attempt to enter Parliament , contesting the seat of East Marylebone as a Unionist with tariff-reform beliefs ; the official Unionist candidate won , with a Liberal second and Jebb third . |
| 24 | Finally , the European council agreed to renew the mandate of Jacques Delors as President of the Commission for a further two years . |
| 25 | Mary A. B. Brazier has described the work of Hans Berger as the triumph of a man working with equipment inadequate even by the standards of his day . |
| 26 | The most pertinent thing was the advent of Arthur Harris as the new C-in-C , His arrival at " The Petrified Forest " ( Bomber Command HO ) coincided with the publication of the Butt Report — one of the most deadly denunciations of the only serious offensive we were able to mount against the enemy . |
| 27 | At 6 o'clock on the evening of 15 February 1990 , police officers went to the home of Bridget Coffey as the result of a communication from her and shortly thereafter arrested Mr. Bell in the vicinity of Miss Coffey 's house . |
| 28 | Although the US was anxious ( or at least willing ) to approve the Bay of Along agreement which would have reincorporated Cochinchina with the other two parts of Vietnam and paved the way for the return of Bao Dai as the Emperor of a legally united Vietnam , the French government was hesitating to submit the agreement to the Assembly because Indo-China , as the US Ambassador in France described it , was a stick of dynamite or , to change the metaphor , the French government was like an overloaded ship incapable of accommodating one more passenger without capsizing : ‘ Indo-China is that passenger ’ . |
| 29 | The Capitoline , formerly connecting the Basilica of S. Ambrogio with the Benedictine monastery , will now be integrated into the Museum of S. Ambrogio as an exhibition space . |
| 30 | Other elements included a willingness to drop the concept of a " land corridor " between the West Bank and Gaza Strip ; the demilitarization of a new Palestinian state for six months ; the inclusion of East Jerusalem as a part of Palestine ; and the holding of a referendum on confederation between Jordan and independent Palestine . |