Object

• trustee: Appointed a Trustee of The Civic Trust on 18th July 2000.

• auditor: Every company is required to appoint an auditor each year at its AGM.

• receiver: The right to appoint an administrative receiver will remain where floating charges are granted in connection with certain transactions in the capital markets.

• director: He was appointed a non-executive director of AEGON UK in 1997.

• chairman: In the absence of both these officers, the meeting shall appoint a Chairman of the meeting.

• person: The Act entitles her to appoint any person to carry out the function of determining such appeals on her behalf.

Preposition: on

• merit: We appreciate the contributions of the individual and appoint solely on merit.

Preposition: as

• director(s: We register clean companies you are appointed as director(s ) and shareholder at the outset.

• founding: Applicant appointed as company founding Director ( Administrator ).

• lecturer: I have been at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1985 when I was appointed as a lecturer in epidemiology.

• secretary: If the company has only one director then another person must be appointed as the company secretary.

• director: Eric Tracey, an audit partner at Deloitte & Touche, has been appointed as finance director.

Used with why or when

• whose: A Committee was appointed whose terms of reference were how improvements could be made in the existing rural credit system.

Infinitive complement

• oversee: Meanwhile, we understand that the consultant headteacher appointed to oversee the process has departed.

• enquire: Extract from the report of the Commission appointed to enquire concerning the charities in the County of Southampton 1888.

• succeed: Mgr Knox resigned in 1939, and Fr Alfonso de Zulueta was appointed to succeed him.

• serve: Members are appointed to serve for three years but may be re-appointed to serve further terms.

• advise: A team led by partner Jason Coates has been appointed to advise the trustees of TM Retail's two pensions schemes.

• act: I have accordingly been appointed to act in this matter.

Preposition: for

• tenure: The head of SAI is appointed for a fixed tenure, for a term not exceeding seven years.