Example sentences of "chairman of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth .
2 He also helped shape the community as chairman of the board of surveyors , lighting inspector , poor-law guardian , and justice of the peace .
3 Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system .
4 He is also chairman of the Board of Governors of Leicester Polytechnic .
5 And anyway erm I first went to and the money ran out and so Grammar School , and then er I was transferred to PorthMadog County School where er Jonathan at that time was chairman of the board of governors .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Dr Rab Telfer has been elected to succeed Mr Richard Lines as chairman of the board of governors at Teesside Polytechnic .
9 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 .
10 Staff at the university are also seeking an urgent meeting with Andrew Armstrong , chairman of the board of governors , to discuss the dispute .
11 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 .
12 The guardians applied , unsuccessfully , to the Public Works Loan Board and it was left to a sub-committee , consisting of the chairman of the Finance Committee , the chairman of the Board of Guardians ( W. T. Lansberry ) and the clerk to arrange the loan elsewhere .
13 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 ’ .
14 The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud .
15 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 .
16 Chairman of the Board of Fellows , three members of the Board of Fellows and if appropriate one or more persons ( non-voting ) to provide specialist knowledge relevant to a particular case .
17 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 .
18 Among those present were Mr John Raisman the Chairman of the Board of Trustees , Griselda 's husband Mr William Kerr , and their enchanting children three-year-old Robin who shook hands with everyone , and Cordelia who preferred to stay with her father .
19 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 .
20 Shaikh Nasir bin Hamad al-Rashid was appointed Chairman of the Board of Grievances , with Cabinet rank .
21 Earlier , the Chamber of the People had elected Rudolf Battek ( Civic Forum ) as its Chairman , while Milan Sutovec ( PAV ) was elected Chairman of the Chamber of Nations .
22 The chairman of the Society of Authors , Anthony Sampson , has written to the BBC to protest about the shelving of ‘ Bookshelf ’ , broadcast for the past 15 years and the only programme on Radio 4 devoted specifically to books .
23 And both the organisations were co-signatories of a letter — signed also by leading figures in the book business , including BA president John Hitchin , PA president Paul Scherer and Anthony Sampson , chairman of the Society of Authors — which was sent in December to the Chancellor under the auspices of the National Book Committee 's ‘ Do n't Tax Reading ’ campaign .
24 The deputy chairman of the council of ministers , Boris Shcherbina , forbade evacuation of the countryside around Chernobyl until a government commission had arrived from Moscow .
25 When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand .
26 In their tasks they are answerable to the VPK , the Central Committee and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Defence Production .
27 Apart from the General Secretary , all authorities known to the author count amongst its permanent members the Minister of Defence ( Marshal Sergey Sokolov ) and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Nikolay Ryzhkov ) .
28 When Khrushchev was removed in 1964 , he was replaced by Brezhnev as first secretary of the CPSU and by Kosygin as chairman of the Council of Ministers .
29 Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary .
30 A meeting of the party central committee on Jan 24 elected to replace him Ayaz Niyaz ogly Mutabilov , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers , at the same time expelling Vezirov from the party .
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