Example sentences of "[was/were] also chairman " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also chairman of Labour 's home policy committee . |
| 2 | Not only did Pateman undertake lectures and courses for the Board , he was also chairman of the RCC 's adult education committee . |
| 3 | He was also Chairman of the University Grants Committee . |
| 4 | First Vice President of the International Canoe Federation , he was also Chairman of the Central Council of Physical Recreation , a member of the Sports Council , a member of the British Olympic Association and President of the British Canoe Union . |
| 5 | He was also chairman of the local Conservative Party committee . |
| 6 | He was also chairman of the Institute Insolvency Licensing Committee and a member of the Davison working party on fraud . |
| 7 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | Another minister , Edward Pease , who was also Chairman of the Peace Society , decided to stay on . |
| 10 | Lord Devlin was also chairman of the now defunct Press Council . |
| 11 | He was also chairman of the airworthiness requirements board of the CAA , so he was able to weigh the pros and cons of the proposal from a position of profound knowledge . |
| 12 | He was also chairman of the Great Western Railway and Member of Parliament for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire from 1892 until his death . |
| 13 | He was also chairman of the Leeds Northern Railway and later a director of the North Eastern Railway . |
| 14 | He presided over the creation of the British Sugar Corporation , served as its chairman between 1935 and 1949 , and was also chairman of a number of other companies , including the Iraq Petroleum Company between 1941 and 1950 . |
| 15 | He was also chairman of the British Equitable Assurance Company . |
| 16 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |