Example sentences of "of the board of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , both the president of the Board of Trade , Sir Stafford Cripps , and the Dominions Secretary , Lord Addison , thought that the fifth freedom clause went against policy as agreed with the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 3 | And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors . |
| 4 | He apparently wishes the official title of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be dropped in favour of the archaic President of the Board of Trade . |
| 5 | Firstly , the attitude of the Board of Education was later to favour the provision made by university extra-mural departments , whose functions developed rapidly during this period , rather than the WEA . |
| 6 | 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 : — |
| 7 | In 1947 the president of the Board of Trade in Attlee 's Labour government , a young and aspiring politician called Harold Wilson , agreed to grant special export licences to Russia for two Rolls Royce jet engines , the Nene and the Derwent . |
| 8 | William Huskisson , President of the Board of Trade , was run down and killed at Parkside on the inaugural run of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 . |
| 9 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 10 | Most of the senior officials of the Board of Education were evacuated to a Bournemouth hotel , leaving as their man in London , R. S. Wood . |
| 11 | Butler became President of the Board of Education in July and saw the purpose of a discussion on the Book as being ‘ to sound for shoals , as it were ’ . |
| 12 | R. A. Butler , as president of the Board of Education , was the principal guest . |
| 13 | He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) . |
| 14 | ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods ! |
| 15 | It is worth noticing that at least one senior member of the Board of Education ( William Cleary , Head of the Elementary Branch ) had argued , as early as 1941 , against the tripartite system and in favour of comprehensive schools . |
| 16 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 17 | The health of individuals apart , overload was not a severe problem in the early fifties , as Lord Thorneycroft , at that time Mr Peter Thorneycroft , an energetic and successful President of the Board of Trade , recalled in an interview with Terry Coleman more than thirty years after Churchill 's retirement . |
| 18 | As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation . |
| 19 | A similar fate had befallen Tony Crosland , President of the Board of Trade , a year earlier . |
| 20 | But sitting round the Cabinet table were at least three ex-Chancellors , about four ex-Presidents of the Board of Trade , one ex-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and all of us , I suppose , had our different advisers on economic policy whom we contacted . |
| 21 | They were to meet members of the Board of Trade at six o'clock and were scheduled to be available for public questioning at a meeting on the mezzanine floor of the hotel at seven . |
| 22 | Nellie McClung served as a member of the Board of Governors of the CBC and died in 1951 . |
| 23 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 24 | The Act dissolved the Company and transferred its powers and those of the Board of Control to a new Secretary of State . |
| 25 | Lord Edward Henry Stanley , the eldest son of Lord Derby the Prime Minister , had been President of the Board of Control and in September 1858 was appointed by his father to be the new Secretary of State for India . |
| 26 | Gladstone and Russell became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary respectively , for the second time , and Sir Charles Wood , a former President of the Board of Control , became the Secretary of State for India . |
| 27 | However , despite the repeated calls for co-operation between the different interests , nothing could be done to allay the criticisms of certain members of the Board of Education , sections of the educational press , notably the School Government Chronicle ( organ of the LEAs ) , and several local Directors of Education . |
| 28 | Although the day-to-day arrangements in Birmingham were similar to those in London , a brief account of the details is useful because Birmingham was the first and the largest provincial area to operate a scheme independently of the Board of Trade . |
| 29 | The second foundational feature of the Birmingham scheme was the creation of a Juvenile Employment Exchange and Bureau under the direction of the Board of Trade , but housed on education premises ( an important fact for those who wished to preserve the ‘ educational ’ nature of the transition ) , together with ‘ the continuous co-operation and interchange of views ’ , which was to be the basis of a real partnership between exchange officials and the LEA . |
| 30 | In 1916 , H. A. L. Fisher , the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University , was appointed President of the Board of Education , with the promise that ‘ money would be found for ambitious educational measures ’ . |