Example sentences of "[vb past] been chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sir Alan Sykes had been Chairman since 1921 , and a Governor since 1901 when his father had died . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been Chairman for less then two years in succession to Dr. Greenwood , when he collapsed and died during a Welsh Regional Rally . |
| 7 | He takes over from Harry Mogford FHCIMA , who had been chairman since the formation of the committee five years ago . |
| 8 | Previously Dementei had been Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium . |
| 9 | Before that Ernest Armstrong had been chairman of Sunderland Borough Council 's education committee , responsible for introducing comprehensive schools to the town . |