Example sentences of "had [been] president " in BNC.

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1 Roosevelt sent Winston Churchill a report on Iran by Major General Patrick Hurley , who had been President Hoovers secretary of war , and had visited Iran in May 1943 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
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 ( The reader may recall that my grandfather , Sir Ludovic Grant , had been president some sixty years before . )
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Bard had been president of the $185m-a-year Integrated Systems Division of Computer Science Corporation which he ran since 1984 .
14 He had been President of the Board of Trade in the 1914–18 War and was later created Lord Ashfield .
15 He had been President of Stockport Historical Society since 1964 and a founder-member of Stockport Civic Society .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 ] .
20 Pereira , who conceded defeat on Feb. 18 , had been President since independence from Portugal in 1975 , and was a generally respected figure .
21 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 .
22 Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office .
23 Olter , Vice-President until his defeat in the 1987 general election , succeeded John R. Haglelgam , who had been President since 1987 .
24 Foreign Minister since 1989 , Ghozali , 54 , had been president of Sonatrach , the state oil and gas company from 1966 until 1977 , and then Minister of Energy .
25 Tabai , who had been President since independence , was constitutionally prohibited for serving a further term in office .
26 Pujol had been president of the regional government since Catalonia became autonomous in 1979 .
27 DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 .
28 The decision to remove exchange controls had an unexpected bearing on the progress of the campaign against Imelda Marcos , whom the government was prosecuting on corruption charges relating to the years in which her late husband had been President of the Philippines .
29 He is Mr Juan Carlos Pugliese , who had been president of the lower house of congress .
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