Example sentences of "been [noun] chief " in BNC.

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1 The Paris appeals court ruled on April 13 that Paul Touvier , 77 , who under the wartime Vichy regime had been intelligence chief of the Milice ( pro-Nazi French militia ) in Lyon in 1943-44 , should not stand trial , on grounds of insufficient evidence , on five charges of crimes against humanity .
2 Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta .
3 He has been Group Chief Executive of Cadbury Schweppes since 1984 and will shortly become Chairman .
4 When , in March 1950 the State Department , under strong Congressional urging , had sent its aid survey mission to Southeast Asia it was headed by Mr R. Allen Griffin , a Californian newspaper publisher and editor , who had been deputy chief of the US Aid Mission to China .
5 Joined Guinness in March 1987 as Managing Director , Finance and Administration , having previously been Deputy Chief Executive of Eurotunnel , and Finance Director of Midland Bank and of BICC .
6 I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true !
7 Rabin had been army Chief of Staff during the 1967 war , and Prime Minister from 1973 until 1977 , when in April he resigned as the Labour Party 's election candidate for the premiership and the Labour Party lost the ensuing general election [ see pp. 28533-38 ] .
8 He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut .
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