By the time the search committee voted for their choice, we had invested three months of anticipation and excitement into the new job.

He and a search committee went to work.

The questionnaire will almost always suggest several key questions that a pastoral search committee would not have thought to ask.

Thus, the search committee was left in the dark.

At one point, he asked me to draft a list of members for a music minister search committee, then asked me to chair the committee.