Example sentences of "the board of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this time that the wellknown property mover and solicitor Noel Smyth appointed nominees to the board of Chestvale . |
| 2 | The semblance of UPH not owning it was created by allowing Smyth to put his nominees onto the board of Chestvale after he gave an undertaking to put the loan notes in place . |
| 3 | Williams vaguely indicated the board of keys by the door . |
| 4 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 5 | The Board of Palatine Ales plc has seen the announcement by Anglo-Welsh Breweries plc of its offer to acquire the company . |
| 6 | The Board of Palatine Ales plc , which is being advised by Purchase and Szell , regard the offer as both unwelcome and wholly unacceptable . |
| 7 | Jane Priestman accepted the President 's invitation to chair the Board of Delegates of the RIBA Awards Trust , in succession to the late Courtenay Blackmore . |
| 8 | The restriction on the application of the rules to disciplinary hearings involving prisoners was removed by the St. Germain case where the hearing was conducted by the Board of Visitors . |
| 9 | Anderson ( N.C. , 1983 ) held that the Board of Visitors should have exercised their discretion to allow legal representation in view of the seriousness of the charges and the potential penalty , the need for fairness between the parties involved and the ability of the prisoners to represent themselves . |
| 10 | I think the only reason they gave us time back was because I was going to report the prison doctor to the Board of Visitors . |
| 11 | The Board of Visitors were coming round and I was going to tell them , so that 's why they shipped us out to Askham Grange open prison . |
| 12 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 13 | He will remain on the board of Saatchi as a non-executive director and will be replaced as chief executive by Charles Scott , who he brought with him into the company as finance director in January 1990 . |
| 14 | In August 1763 the board of longitude asked Green to go to Barbados with Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] |
| 15 | Labour councillor Jill Knight , of Bangor , said the board of Gwynedd Civil Engineering had no choice . |
| 16 | The 1982 PSOE government tried to alleviate the problem of knowledge by placing senior government officials on the board of RENFE . |
| 17 | The Board of Guinness properly established a committee for the purposes of the take-over bid for Distillers PLC . |
| 18 | Donald P. Brennan was appointed to the Board on 22 May 1991 and to the board of Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc on 14 June 1991 . |
| 19 | Kevin C. McGoran was appointed to the Board on 25 April 1990 and to the board of Waterford Crystal Limited on 19 March 1991 . |
| 20 | Robert H. Niehaus was appointed to the Board on 25 April 1990 and to the board of Waterford Crystal Limited on 19 March 1991 . |
| 21 | He also retires from the Board of Waterford Wedgwood UK plc. , of which he is a director . |
| 22 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 23 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |
| 24 | He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth . |
| 25 | It was also the meeting place of the Board of Guardians , whose duty it was to look after the poor , and the Patrington Union which was responsible for 27 parishes . |
| 26 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
| 27 | Interest of £100 per annum and £40 per annum , respectively , was paid regularly until the Board of Guardians took over in 1836 , when the principal was repaid in full . |
| 28 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 29 | The Board of Guardians gave notice that medical gentlemen willing to furnish medical relief to the paupers resident in the Bedford workhouse , with special arrangements ( fees ) for midwifery , were to send sealed tenders to Mr. Samuel Wing , clerk to the guardians , stating their ‘ terms per case ’ . |
| 30 | There was a big turnout at a meeting of the Board of Guardians , which included the Poor Law Commissioner , to consider the matter . |