Example sentences of "of the board of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The second quote is from a member of the board of directors of the Highlander Research and Education Center during a board meeting which I attended in May 1986 : —
2 The subsidiary company is not allowed to acquire shares in the holding company and no person may be a member of the board of directors of both companies .
3 Parliament also appoints a managing director for five years , and neither the managing director nor any other member of the executive of the organization is allowed to be engaged in business or become a member of the board of directors of any company .
4 These provide for the constitution of the board of directors of the company and the decision-making process ; the right to appoint a non-executive director ; negative pledges in favour of the investing institutions ; the flow of regular financial management information to the investors ; the giving of warranties by the management team and Newco ; and the granting of restrictive covenants .
5 Faith is very often placed either in institutional investors or in redefining the role of the board of directors as that of monitoring executive management .
6 Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board .
7 In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law .
8 A resolution from Biggleswade , that the transference of the functions of the Board of Guardians to the County Councils would be detrimental to the poor and to the ratepayers , was strongly supported , as was another from elsewhere ; the newly elected government was to be asked to postpone the operation of the Local Government Act of 1929 .
9 The effects of the error were not rectified until 1888 , when the Commissioners agreed that the vacant appointment should be filled by a nominee from " the Magistrates for Lancashire meeting at Manchester and qualified as ex officio Poor Law Guardians of the Board of Guardians for the Union of Stockport . "
10 For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ .
11 The last meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Bedford Union was held on 29th March 1930 .
12 He was in active practice for twenty-five years , and was elected chairman of the Board of Guardians in 1837 , serving for forty-eight years .
13 Previously chairman of the board of studies at Durham University Business School , he will be responsible for several courses including the Master of Business Administration degree .
14 He was a vice-president of the Chemical Society ( 1906–9 ) and was a member of the board of studies in chemistry at the University of London , and the governing body of the Imperial College of Science and Technology , London .
15 Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power .
16 Nellie McClung served as a member of the Board of Governors of the CBC and died in 1951 .
17 He is also chairman of the Board of Governors of Leicester Polytechnic .
18 of the shares of a bank without prior approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve .
19 A former EC Commissioner , he is chairman of Allied Irish Banks and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration .
20 The former chairman of the board of governors of Longlands College in Middlesbrough is a quietly spoken man , who when he was elected in November said he was determined to serve all the people of Langbaurgh , whether or not they had voted for him .
21 STUART Renton , MBE , DA , ARSA , FRIBA , FRIAS , has been elected chairman of the board of governors of Edinburgh College of Art , He succeeds Martin Huggins , chairman since January 1991 .
22 After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 .
23 In 1960 , Hugh Greene , a member of the Board of Governors at the BBC , had abruptly dismissed the claim that ITV was as much a public service body as the BBC , cynically despatching its press tag as ‘ the people 's Television ’ .
24 Dr Rab Telfer has been elected to succeed Mr Richard Lines as chairman of the board of governors at Teesside Polytechnic .
25 The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively .
26 David Lee , deputy director of the Imperial War Museum at Duxford has become a member of the board of trustees at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York .
27 The National Gallery has received letters of support from several international museums and galleries , including Dominique Bozo , director of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris , Gerard Regnier , director of the Picasso Museum , Paris , and Thomas Messer , director emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York and now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery in Prague .
28 I detest the Minister of Culture , Jordi Solé Tura , for compelling members of the Board of Trustees of the Prado to vote by raising their hands , like the woman on the right hand side in the painting , rather than by secret ballot , in order to secure expert and moral support for the flight of ‘ Guernica ’ 's bird of ill omen .
29 I am greatly honoured to have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland in succession to Mr Michael Strachan , who retired in November 1990 after 16 years ' service .
30 I am writing to offer you formally on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland , an appointment as a with the Department of of the Library .
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