Example sentences of "[be] [noun] chief " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Paris appeals court ruled on April 13 that Paul Touvier , 77 , who under the wartime Vichy regime had been intelligence chief of the Milice ( pro-Nazi French militia ) in Lyon in 1943-44 , should not stand trial , on grounds of insufficient evidence , on five charges of crimes against humanity . |
| 2 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 3 | He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman . |
| 4 | When , in March 1950 the State Department , under strong Congressional urging , had sent its aid survey mission to Southeast Asia it was headed by Mr R. Allen Griffin , a Californian newspaper publisher and editor , who had been deputy chief of the US Aid Mission to China . |
| 5 | Joined Guinness in March 1987 as Managing Director , Finance and Administration , having previously been Deputy Chief Executive of Eurotunnel , and Finance Director of Midland Bank and of BICC . |
| 6 | Mr Ritchie , who will be deputy chief executive of the group , warned : ‘ I can not give a guarantee that there will be no redundancies . |
| 7 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 8 | Rabin had been army Chief of Staff during the 1967 war , and Prime Minister from 1973 until 1977 , when in April he resigned as the Labour Party 's election candidate for the premiership and the Labour Party lost the ensuing general election [ see pp. 28533-38 ] . |
| 9 | He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut . |
| 10 | There have been many more incidents in the north-east , in particular , and that is why the recent transfer of Mr. J. A. Stevens from being deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire will doubtless be welcomed in Northumbria . |
| 11 | Waller is Commodore Chief Engineer |
| 12 | Uncle John , this is Detective Chief Inspector Wexford . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This is Police Chief Sam Maggott . ’ |
| 14 | They make a good double act in the Treasury team , where she is shadow Chief Secretary . |
| 15 | The new Air Force Commander was Air Chief Marshal Gun Pimarnthip , and Gen. Chetta Tanajaro was appointed as the new Head of the First Army Region . |
| 16 | Of those surviving from the previous politburo Le Duc Anh , 71 , was Minister of National Defence and deputy secretary of the Vietnam People 's Army ( VPA ) party commission ; Vo Van Kiet , 69 , First Vice Chair of the Council of Ministers , was a leading reformist ; Dao Duy Tung , 62 , was in charge of ideological , scientific and educational matters ; Doan Khue , 68 , was VPA Chief of General Staff and Deputy Minister of National Defence . |
| 17 | Fazle Haq , who had been accused of complicity in the murder in 1988 of a Shia leader while he was caretaker Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) [ see p. 37151 ] . |
| 18 | He was deputy chief signals officer , Western Command , from 1941 to 1942 ; and then CSO Air Formation Signals , Home Forces , in 1943 . |
| 19 | ( I was Deputy Chief Inspector at the time and privy to the discussions and proposals relating to the investigation . ) |
| 20 | Anthony Butler , who comes from Leicestershire where he was Deputy Chief . |
| 21 | Less chirpy was Amstrad chief , Alan Sugar , who spoke bluntly of the perils of a Labour government . |
| 22 | ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench . |