Example sentences of "been chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 2 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 3 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 4 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 5 | There are a handful of representatives of well-known political families , like Nicholas Soames and the present Winston of the Churchills , the Douglases Hogg and Hurd , who are both the sons and grandsons of MPs , while the father of Sir Charles and Peter Morrison ( ‘ Pinky and Perky ’ ) was Lord Margadale , who had been chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee in the fifties and sixties . |
| 6 | He has been chairman of the all-party Anglo-Irish Group since 1979 . |
| 7 | He has been chairman of the road safety committee since 1986 . |
| 8 | Sir Michael Angus Sir Michael Angus , leader of the Campaign for Resource , has been Chairman of Unilever plc and Vice-Chairman of Unilever NV since 1986 . |
| 9 | Sir Jeremy Morse Sir Jeremy Morse , Chancellor of the University , has been Chairman of Lloyds Bank since 1977 . |
| 10 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 11 | Since 1988 he has been chairman of CAFOD . |
| 12 | Initially they were Josiah ( ‘ Jack ’ ) Eccles , formerly head of the Liverpool Corporation electricity undertaking ; Alderman Lewis , a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands ; John Pickles , ex-county electrical engineer of Dumfries and an expert in rural electrification ; and Harry Randall , who had been chairman of the London Supply Companies Association . |
| 13 | Since 1990 he has been Chairman of the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 14 | A typical Victorian gentleman of enormous energy and breadth of interest , he had combined the office with being a Guardian of the Poor , a Magistrate , a Musician of some repute , working for Stockport Sunday School and the Infirmary , and had also been Chairman of the short-lived Stockport School Board in the 1870s . |
| 15 | Sir Alan Sykes had been Chairman since 1921 , and a Governor since 1901 when his father had died . |
| 16 | He did much hospital work : for several years up to his retirement he had been Chairman of the South West Regional Hospital Management Board and was an active hospital visitor . |
| 17 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 18 | He had been Chairman for less then two years in succession to Dr. Greenwood , when he collapsed and died during a Welsh Regional Rally . |
| 19 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 20 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 21 | Alured 's civil war activities were concentrated in two committees : he seems to have been chairman of the committee of the East Riding , and he was an equally active member of the committee of the Northern Association ( sometimes called ‘ the committee at York ’ , though wholly distinct from the committee of Yorkshire , also at York ) . |
| 22 | He takes over from Harry Mogford FHCIMA , who had been chairman since the formation of the committee five years ago . |
| 23 | M. Danny Wall had resigned on Dec. 4 , 1989 , as head of the federal Office of Thrift Supervision ( OTS ) , which had been created in August 1989 to assume the duties of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board , of which Wall had also been chairman . |
| 24 | Previously Dementei had been Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium . |
| 25 | Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution . |
| 26 | He has also of course been Chairman of the Sekers Group for a number of years . |
| 27 | He is Chairman of Inchcape having previously been Chairman and Chief Executive of Vickers . |
| 28 | He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank . |
| 29 | Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories . |
| 30 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |