Example sentences of "be general [noun] of the " in BNC.
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1 | No , I was simply asked to be General Chairman of the first dinner to raise funds for Aids . |
2 | In order to make the most of the exercise , some teachers thought that it would be very valuable to be able to read other departmental self-appraisals and for there to be general discussion of the appraisal . |
3 | Does the Foreign Secretary accept that there should be general acceptance of the criteria laid down by the European Community on recognition , but that there might be some stricture about the speed of recognition , especially for Yugoslavia ? |
4 | It is important to recognize that there are general consequences of the use of hierarchy as a coordinating mechanism — the subdivision of tasks , the pyramidal structure of organization , the nature of individual activity within such large organizations , the mechanisms of control and communication , the gradation of autonomy and so on — that apply both to public bureaucracies and to similarly hierarchical organizations in the private sector . |
5 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
6 | There had been general endorsement of the broad aims of Partnership in Validation to respond to increasing maturity on the part of associated institutions , but dislike of the detailed machinery . |
7 | Blakeney , who had been general manager of the Egyptian State Railway from 1919 to 1923 , was responsible for organizing the tight-knit military discipline of the organization and for turning the BF into a limited company , the anglicized British Fascists Ltd , in 1924 . |
8 | Despite this allusion to financial gentility , the truth was that Michael Joyce 's income derived from rented property , and from being general manager of the horse trams in Galway . |
9 | Mr Woodley , who is General Secretary of the Australian Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge ( a corporate member of WACC ) , outlined the changes during a seminar which formed part of the Christian Booksellers Convention in Adelaide in August . |
10 | Mengistu is general secretary of the party , which is governed by an 11-member political bureau . |
11 | Last week I talked with Laurie Sapper , who is General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers . |
12 | There is general recognition of the fact that the interests of employers and employees do not always coincide . |
13 | Mr Seierstad served on the advisory council of the UBS in Ecuador , and more recently he was General Secretary of the Norwegian Santal Mission . |
14 | This thinking eventually became publicly manifest in my book A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , also written with the encouragement of , who was general editor of the Longmans English Language Series in which it , like English in Advertising , was published . |
15 | He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers , and made provision for regular inquiries into it , and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts , as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre . |
16 | There was general appreciation of the paper as a good and positive summary and no detailed comments were made . |