Example sentences of "was [verb] chairman [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congratulations to ( above ) who was installed Chairman of the Northern Ireland Division and is seen with National President . |
| 2 | A former Minister of Public Works , Abdel-Rahman Ibrahim al Houti , was named chairman of a war reparations committee established on July 3 . |
| 3 | In October 1955 , Eden had increased the powers of the Minister marginally , and his Chief Staff Officer was made Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee . |
| 4 | In that year Bevin became Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dalton was made Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | In 1980 he was made Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lever Brothers Company , New York . |
| 6 | At the outbreak of World War I , though not the most senior of chief railway officers , he was made chairman of the Railway Executive , which controlled all aspects of railway operation . |
| 7 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 8 | In 1985 he was made Chairman of the Bovis Construction Group and appointed to the P&O SN Co Main Board . |
| 9 | At 39 he was made chairman of the Conservative Party by Sir Alec Douglas-Home , but was never in favour during the Heath years . |
| 10 | And he was made chairman of the Railway executive . |
| 11 | In 1974 Lord Gardiner was appointed chairman of a committee to consider what provisions and powers , consistent to the maximum extent practicable in the circumstances with the preservation of civil liberties and human rights , were required to deal with terrorism and subversion in Northern Ireland , including provisions for the administration of justice ; and to examine the working of the Act of 1973 . |
| 12 | Mr J. Ferguson , 2 Viewfield Road was appointed chairman of a committee to deal with the matter . |
| 13 | Also on Feb. 19 Mohammad Hassan Sharq resigned as Prime Minister , and on Feb. 21 Sultan Ali Keshtmand ( Sharq 's predecessor as Prime Minister ) was appointed Chairman of a newly created Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers [ ibid . ] . |
| 14 | When in November 1990 Sir George Blunden , who had been Deputy Governor of the Bank of England , was appointed chairman of The Money Advice Trust ( created in January of that year ) , the aim was to raise £6 million for the purpose . |
| 15 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 16 | Only a few weeks after the election , the Tory Mr Grist was appointed chairman of the South Glamorgan District Health Authority ( £19,285 a year for a three-day week ) . |
| 17 | The industrialist Sir Montague Barlow was appointed Chairman of the Commission , whose members included Professor Abercrombie , then the most influential academic planner in the country . |
| 18 | He became a vice-president of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology ; he became a member of the Science Museum advisory council , and took an active part in the discussions which resulted in the establishment of the Railway Museum in York ; the National Trust made him a member of its properties committee , to advise on industrial archaeology ; and he was appointed chairman of the Council for British Archaeology research committee on industrial archaeology . |
| 19 | Ross was appointed chairman of the enlarged company . |
| 20 | Sir Robert Lowry the Chief Justice of Northern Ireland was appointed Chairman of the Convention on 22 February 1975 , and on 25 March Harold Wilson went to Northern Ireland to announce that the elections for the Constitutional Convention would be held on Thursday 1 May . |
| 21 | He was appointed Chairman of the Group on 19 June 1991 . |
| 22 | Takeo Nishioka , a former Education Minister , was named as chairman of the party 's general council , and Mutsuki Kato , a former Agriculture Minister , was appointed chairman of the LDP 's policy research council . |
| 23 | In Byelorussia Vyacheslav Kebich was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) on April 7 . |
| 24 | Stefani retained his politburo membership and was appointed Chairman of the State Control Commission , in place of Manush Myftiu who also lost his post as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers . |
| 25 | Yegor Gaidar , the First Deputy Prime Minister , was appointed chairman of the commission . |
| 26 | Shaikh Nasir bin Hamad al-Rashid was appointed Chairman of the Board of Grievances , with Cabinet rank . |
| 27 | Shaikh Salih Bin Muhammad al-Lihaydan was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council , also with Cabinet rank . |
| 28 | Harold Svennson was appointed chairman of the Darlington CHA and HF Rambling Club at the group 's 56th annual meeting at Darlington Arts Centre . |
| 29 | He was appointed chairman in a deal negotiated between Bond Corp , 19.9 per cent shareholder Adelaide Steamship and Australia 's corporate watchdog , the National Companies and Securities Commission . |
| 30 | At the Club 's AGM in January , Colin Reddick was elected Chairman for the year . |