Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] head [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had official visits from Hector Charlesworth as head of the C.R.B.C. and his right hand programme and administration official , Ernie Bushnell . |
| 2 | On Sept. 30 Gorbachev named Yevgeny Primakov as head of the foreign intelligence operations formerly conducted by the KGB ( State Security Committee ) . |
| 3 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 4 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 5 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 6 | Last week , Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the Exchange , announced the appointment of Sir Geoffrey Littler as head of the Clearing House Formation Committee , which is charged with developing the proposals for the new settlement system . |
| 7 | Following the Reagan administration 's retreat from urban policy , President Bush 's appointment of Jack Kemp as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the announcement in June 1989 of the formation of a Presidential Task Force on the Inner City signalled a possible return flow of ideas . |
| 8 | Héctor Jurado Toro who retired from active service ; Justice : Alfredo Ducharme replaced Jésus Moreno Guacarán ; Labour : Jesús Rubén Rodríguez replaced Germán Lairet who resigned ; Information : Andrés Eloy Blanco replaced Luis Vezga Godoy as head of the Central Office of Information ; Tourism : Víctor Gamboa replaced Vladimir Gessen , who became ambassador to Canada , as Minister of State , President of Corpoturismo . |
| 9 | When de Gaulle returned to London at the end of August 1941 , he and Churchill had a making-up of sorts , but behind the scenes British officials were now working to replace de Gaulle as head of the movement . |
| 10 | Col. Joseph Lemoine Florestant was appointed as the Chief of General Staff ; Col. Michel Louis as Inspector-General and Lt.-Col. Pierre Cherubin as head of the Port-au-Prince police , replacing Col. Ramus Saint-Vil who was appointed as director of the Military Academy . |
| 11 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 12 | A replacement for X Window pioneer Bob Scheifler as head of the X Consortium has been found in Lou Abel who must now raise funds as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdraws support and figure out the consortium 's true charter especially now that the industry has established a trade association , the X Industry Association . |
| 13 | A replacement for X-Windows pioneer Bob Scheifler as head of the X Consortium has been found in Lou Abel who must now raise funds as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdraws support and figure out the consortium 's true charter especially now that the industry has established a trade association , the X Industry Association ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 14 | The propaganda value of Japan 's ‘ gift of independence ’ in the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere was emphasised by a gathering of heads of puppet states in Tokyo in November 1943 : besides Ba Maw there were the heads of Manchukuo , Thailand and the Philippines , with Subhas Bose as head of the Free India Government and the unknown ‘ Prime Minister of China ’ recognised by Japan . |
| 15 | It also emerged that Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan , a formidable hardliner , was to replace Xu Jiatun as head of the New China News Agency ( Xinhua ) in Hong Kong ( China 's unofficial ambassador to the territory ) . |
| 16 | In October sweeping changes were made to the secretariats and the General People 's Congress , including the appointment of the former chair of the National Oil Corporation Abdullah al-Badri as head of the Petroleum Secretariat . |
| 17 | In early July Gen. Manuel Heiz Azpúrua replaced Gen. Raúl Giménez Gainza as head of the Intelligence and Prevention Services Directorate ( DISIP ) . |