Example sentences of "been president " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 2 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 3 | For the past seven years , he has been President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 4 | Before the war , Lewes had been President of the Oxford University Boat Club , and was quiet and studious , in contrast to most of the young officers who had been with the Commandos . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 8 | ( The reader may recall that my grandfather , Sir Ludovic Grant , had been president some sixty years before . ) |
| 9 | Such qualities have been sustained as , among other things , he has been president of the Association of Tennis Professionals , captain for several years of successful American Davis Cup teams , writer , broadcaster and company director . |
| 10 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 11 | Uxbridge , Middlesex-based VeriFone ( UK ) Ltd has announced the appointment of John Hinds as vice-president and general manager of the International Division of its parent company VeriFone Inc ; Hinds joins the company from AT&T Co where he was a senior vice-president and had been president of the AT&T International arm since 1987 . |
| 12 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 13 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 14 | Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign . |
| 15 | Bard had been president of the $185m-a-year Integrated Systems Division of Computer Science Corporation which he ran since 1984 . |
| 16 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 17 | He had also been President of the International Association for Mass Communication Research for 18 years . |
| 18 | Professor Anthony Jones , who has been President of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago since 1986 , is the new appointment as the Rector of the Royal College of Art . |
| 19 | He had been President of the Board of Trade in the 1914–18 War and was later created Lord Ashfield . |
| 20 | He had been President of Stockport Historical Society since 1964 and a founder-member of Stockport Civic Society . |
| 21 | He had been President of the Bristol Rotary Club , chairman of governors of many schools and colleges ( notably R.M.C.S. , Shrivenham ) , and was a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators , to mention but a few of his activities . |
| 22 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 23 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 24 | Pérez had previously been President in 1974-79 and was the first Venezuelan head of state to be re-elected . |
| 25 | Mermaz , who had been president of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and was briefly Minister of Transport in 1988 , had been leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly since 1988 . |
| 26 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 27 | He had been president of the Council of State in 1982-83 under Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt and came third in the 1985 presidential elections [ see p. 34285 ] . |
| 28 | Guido di Tella , the new Defence Minister , a liberal Peronist who had briefly been president of the Central Bank in 1982 , was hitherto ambassador to the United States . |
| 29 | Pereira , who conceded defeat on Feb. 18 , had been President since independence from Portugal in 1975 , and was a generally respected figure . |
| 30 | The story was also fuelled by a book , My Turn to Speak , written by Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr , who had been President of Iran in 1980-81 . |