Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [vb pp] president " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric Newman has been appointed president of the US medical and scientific publisher Appleton & Lange . |
| 2 | Compaore had been re-elected President in elections in December 1991 which were boycotted by opposition parties [ see p. 38665 ] . |
| 3 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 4 | In Argentina , for example , Juan Domingo Perón had been elected President in February , and neighbouring Portugal was still ruled by another Right-wing dictator , Antonio Oliveira de Salazar . |
| 5 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 6 | Ultra Network Technologies Inc 's vice president of sales Michael Paul has been named president and chief executive officer of the company following the departure of the incumbent Ray Fortune . |
| 7 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 8 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |