Example sentences of "[adj] post of [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 18 the Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan elected Ayaz Niyaz ogly Mutalibov , the Azerbaijan Communist Party first secretary , to the post of President of the Republic , and Elmira Kafarova to the separate post of Chair of the Supreme Soviet ( previously she had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet Presidium ) . |
| 2 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 3 | In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | Yang Shangkun 's younger half-brother , Yang Baibing , although promoted to the politburo , was removed from the more powerful post of secretary-general of the CMC . |
| 5 | Shameem Alam Khan was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 6 | He replaced Sam Skinner who was given the largely ceremonial post of chairman of the Republican National Committee . |
| 7 | Returning to government with his mentor two years later , he was briefly a lord of the Treasury , but in 1711 became comptroller again and not long after that took a peerage as one of Harley 's ‘ dozen ’ new lords ( created en bloc to guarantee the Upper House 's acceptance of the peace of Utrecht ) and retreated to the lucrative but undemanding post of teller of the Exchequer . |
| 8 | ‘ The Law Society is proud that a solicitor and member of its Council has been chosen for the important post of Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
| 9 | At the opening session on March 29 Arnold Rüütel , previously the Chairman of the Estonian Supreme Soviet Presidium , was elected to the restyled post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet ( de facto President ) . |
| 10 | At the opening session on May 3 Anatolijs Gorbunovs , previously the Chairman of the Latvian Supreme Soviet Presidium [ hitherto his name has been given in Keesing 's as Anatoly Gorbunov , its Russian form ] , was elected to the restyled post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet ( de facto President ) . |
| 11 | Gombojavyn Ochirbat , elected general secretary of the MPRP in March 1990 and in April to the restyled post of chair of the central committee [ see pp. 37317 ; 37374 ] , delivered his report to the congress on Feb. 25 . |
| 12 | It is in 1290 , however , that he first comes into prominence with his appointment to the responsible post of clerk of the king 's council . |
| 13 | As a consequence of the creation of the new presidency , Gorbachev 's former post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet was restyled , effectively being restored to the function of parliamentary Speaker ( the post had served this function prior to becoming a de facto executive presidency and occupied by Gorbachev in May 1989 — see pp. 36486 ; 36659 ) . |
| 14 | Pugo 's former post of chair of the CPSU central control commission was filled by Yevgeny Makhov on Jan. 30 . |
| 15 | After the country 's first multiparty elections of April 1991 , a People 's Assembly still dominated by the Albanian Party of Labour ( PLA — later to become the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) had returned Alia to the renamed post of President of the Republic [ see pp. 38160 ; 38208 ] . |
| 16 | It elected to the new post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet ( i.e. executive President of Turkmenia ) Saparmurad Niyazov , the Turkmen Communist Party first secretary [ the elections in the Soviet republics will be covered in full in a forthcoming News Digest article ] . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 18 | In accordance with the interim constitution , on April 30 the People 's Assembly held an election for the new post of President of the Republic . |
| 19 | On Aug. 10 a Supreme Court judge , Giuseppe di Gennaro , 68 , took up the new post of director of the DIA on a provisional basis . |
| 20 | Among those elected was a former dissident , Daniel Chipenda , who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party . |
| 21 | He had also carried out several town planning improvements in London , but early in 1856 with the appointment by Hall of Henry Arthur Hunt ( 1810–89 ) to the new post of Surveyor of the Works and Public Buildings , he found that his duties had been drastically curtailed . |
| 22 | In 1267–8 he held the rather more responsible local post of sheriff of the twin counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire . |