Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain Gourd , Canada 's Deputy Minister of Communications , has been elected President of the International Institute of Communications , a UK-based organisation which undertakes communication research and policy analysis … |
| 2 | Dr Kim Yong Bock , a close friend of WACC , has been appointed President of the Hamil Theological Seminary in Korea . |
| 3 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 4 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 5 | John Morgan , deputy chief executive and general manager XEU , has been appointed president , BP Exploration Alaska , one of several changes in the senior management team in Aberdeen effective from January 1994 . |
| 6 | Ultra Network Technologies Inc 's vice president of sales Michael Paul has been named president and chief executive officer of the company following the departure of the incumbent Ray Fortune . |
| 7 | Claris Japan Inc , established on February 1 , is capitalised at $800,000 and Douglas Boake , managing director of Asia-Pacific operations at Claris , has been named president . |
| 8 | James Meehan , Lotus Development Corp former vice president and general manager , international operations , has been named president and chief executive officer of Cambridge , Massachusetts-based CenterLine Software Inc . |
| 9 | Jim Harris , a member of the SCO board of directors since 1988 , has been named president and CEO in his place . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Philip Huelson , Sparc International vice president and technology director , has been named president and chief operating officer of the organisation responsible for operations and development of new business activities . |
| 11 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 12 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 13 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 14 | Compaore had been re-elected President in elections in December 1991 which were boycotted by opposition parties [ see p. 38665 ] . |
| 15 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 16 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 17 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |
| 18 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 19 | Under the arrangement a Spanish socialist , Enrique Barón Crespo , had been elected President in 1989 [ see p. 36818 ] . |
| 20 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 21 | Thomas Klestil , who had been elected President in May [ see p. 38929 ] , took office on July 8 . |
| 22 | The veteran diplomat and former Union Minister K. R. Narayanan was elected as India 's ninth Vice-President on Aug. 19 in succession to S. D. Sharma , who had been elected President in July [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 23 | In Argentina , for example , Juan Domingo Perón had been elected President in February , and neighbouring Portugal was still ruled by another Right-wing dictator , Antonio Oliveira de Salazar . |
| 24 | A nephew of Napoleon I had been elected President of the French Second Republic in December 1848 and was to become Emperor of the French in 1852 . |