Example sentences of "appointed a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Usually the committee of the Salon appointed a hanging committee which was automatically and unanimously approved by the general assembly at its annual meeting held a few weeks before the opening of the exhibition .
2 Even the Equal Opportunities Commission appointed a male chief executive in 1985 .
3 At that time , there was no sight of the other half of the picture , and until Orkney Islands Council appointed a temporary Press Officer , no regular statements were made .
4 S J Ahearne ( 53 ) was appointed a managing director on 21 March 1992 .
5 R F Chase ( 49 ) was appointed a managing director on 21 March 1992 .
6 B K Sanderson ( 52 ) was appointed a managing director on 17 April 1992 .
7 Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses .
8 Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections .
9 Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) .
10 Nevertheless , most local authorities appointed a chief executive officer , a management team of principal chief officers , and some form of policy and resources committee .
11 The WRU has appointed a four-man committee of inquiry to look into the events surrounding the centenary tour of South Africa last August .
12 In 1920 he was appointed a superintending chemist and exercised his encyclopaedic knowledge of organic chemistry , and his administrative abilities , to organize the considerable amount of new work arising from the Safeguarding of Industries Act of 1921 and from new silk duties in 1926 , each case involving many thousands of samples .
13 President Roh Tae Woo appointed a former Army Chief of Staff , Lee Jong Koo , as the country 's new Defence Minister ; Lt.-Gen.
14 In Michaelmas term 1264 he was appointed a junior justice of the Common Bench and remained a justice of the court till the end of Trinity term 1265 .
15 Before the year was over a number of significant changes had occurred : a new director ( Dr B. B. Lloyd ) arrived ; London gave notice that it intended to stop bulk entry to the external system ; and D. R. A. Mobbs was appointed a principal lecturer in biology .
16 Mirror appointed a second merchant bank adviser , Schroder Wagg , at the end of last year to work alongside its existing adviser , Samuel Montagu , which handled its flotation last May .
17 Mirror appointed a second merchant bank adviser , Schroder Wagg , at the end of last year to work alongside its existing adviser , Samuel Montagu , which handled its flotation last May .
18 All-India radio reported on Aug. 26 that the government had appointed a second commission of inquiry to investigate the May 21 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] .
19 Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt .
20 They 've appointed a full-time officer for the job .
21 THE Royal British Legion has appointed a full-time county field officer to cover Clwyd , Gwynedd and Montgomeryshire .
22 In the same month the NPA appointed a civilian Prime Minister and a new Cabinet [ see pp. 38003-04 ; 38099 ] .
23 Later that month the junta appointed a civilian Prime Minister , Anand Panyarachun , who formed a new Cabinet , and a military-dominated National Legislative Assembly .
24 Mobutu resigned as chairman of the MPR and appointed a Prime Minister ( First State Commissioner ) as head of government .
25 It has , for instance , appointed a lay chairman to its disciplinary committee and ensured that 25% of its investigation and disciplinary committees are non-accountants .
26 The Government has already appointed a legal team in an effort to push through the building proposals .
27 In 1836 the Royal College of Surgeons , one of the bastions of traditional power within the medical establishment , appointed a young and ambitious anatomist , Richard Owen , to a professorial chair .
28 Another significant report appeared in 1961 , when the British government appointed a working party to determine the basic requirements for an efficient public library service , with particular reference to authorities of under 40,000 population .
29 The PA had , he said , appointed a working party under Simon Master of Random House to report on these problem issues .
30 As part of the process he resigned as chairman of the ruling MPR and appointed a transitional government headed by a First State Commissioner ( Prime Minister ) .
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