Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mistrial was declared on Aug. 26 in the trial of a former CIA deputy director of covert operations , Clair George . |
| 2 | Staff at Merseyside 's Whiston Hospital said temperature dropped to icy cold whenever the ghost of a former patient , known as The Grey Lady , was spotted . |
| 3 | As we bopped up and down over Hampshire in the world 's quietest helicopter , the McDonnell-Douglas 520 , we were told the story of a former Luftwaffe pilot , now aged 65 , who still ferries little propeller craft across the pond from America to England . |
| 4 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 5 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |
| 6 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |
| 7 | A MAN who claims his mail has not been delivered for over two years has received an apology from the Post Office after the discovery of over 400 letters at the home of a former postman . |
| 8 | But he refused to comment on speculation that it was the home of a former girlfriend of Mr McEvoy . |
| 9 | A court order avoids the repayment of the discount on the transfer of a former council house ( see further this chapter ) and it is only by court order ( with the agreement of the parties ) that future claims against the estate of one party to the former marriage can be barred out ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 11 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 12 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 13 | Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter . |
| 14 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 15 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 16 | Plans to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre outside Ingliston were put forward yesterday by the Wigton Motor Club which is based in Cumbria . |
| 17 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 18 | It occupies the site of a former school that was razed by fire . |
| 19 | We have been asked to make it clear that the joint Essex County Council/Essex TEC scheme to create an enterprise centre at the site of a former school near Parkeston Quay ( reported in the EADT yesterday ) does not affect the company Autoprint , which will continue to trade from its premises at School House , Hamilton Street . |
| 20 | The site of a former steelworks near Blantyre in Lanarkshire has already been earmarked for land reclamation using sludge . |
| 21 | A RECLAMATION scheme on the site of a former County Durham colliery is due to begin next year when Durham County Council plans to improve the landscape of more than 17 hectares at Sacriston . |
| 22 | The set is in the shape of a giant book , whose pages open to reveal the Royal Palace , a dungeon , the cellar of a former teacher , Mr Nibbs , and the river , beyond which lies the democratic Singing Land — a country where people are able to choose their own leaders . |
| 23 | Minister tour : Housing Minister Sir George Young is to be shown the transformation of a former Merseyside slum area in Marsh Lane , Bootle . |
| 24 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 25 | As it was tabled on 17 December , has the Leader of the House had time to reflect on early-day motion 424 in the name of a former Law Officer , a former Home Secretary , myself and 41 colleagues ? |
| 26 | On the base they are inscribed with the name of a former owner , Silius , who served as legate of Upper Germany between A.D. 14 and A.D. 21 . |
| 27 | Finally , it was argued that the Special Commissioner had erred in ruling that the evidence of a former deputy head of the Revenue 's Enquiry Branch was inadmissible . |
| 28 | The road to the fell leaves the A65 at Cowan Bridge , a small village where a tablet on the gable of a former school proudly proclaims that the Brontë sisters were educated there in 1824–25 before the transfer of the school to Casterton . |
| 29 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |
| 30 | After admitting to an extramarital affair with the niece of a former Cabinet minister the Rev. Allan Boesak , President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches , on July 25 resigned as minister of his local church , outside Cape Town , and as Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church . |