Example sentences of "[be] a former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if you 're a former fan , I 'll buy your stuff Both types contact me . |
| 2 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 3 | SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) . |
| 4 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 5 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 6 | He may be a former jockey but he still has to watch his weight ! ’ |
| 7 | In zoology , where again there seemed to be a former world of ‘ Dragons of the prime , That tare each other in their slime ’ in meaningless violence , the extinct animals could be seen as types of those now existing . |
| 8 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 9 | With us were a former Minister of Finance , the head of a big Building Society , and their wives . |
| 10 | In various other trusts were a former monastery in England where his daughter Susan lives , and some other properties . |
| 11 | He 's a former chairman of the magistrates association and has spent thirty one years on the bench . |
| 12 | He 's a former government Chief Whip and remains ( slightly more surprisingly ) the president of the Auto Cycle Union . |
| 13 | He 's a former patient of the Wolfeson , and is cared for by his wife , a nurse who he met at the centre . |
| 14 | But the Duke of Marlborough says his son and heir , who 's a former drug addict , has n't even contacted HIM . |
| 15 | He 's a former Magistrate who needs no convincing about the benefits of this kind of rehabilitation . |
| 16 | Horden is a former pit village , and proud of it , in East Durham . |
| 17 | Four Trix is a former winner of the Scottish National and has inconsistent form but Richards is more keen on the chance of On The Other Hand whom he bought out of the John Mulhern stable at the end of last month . |
| 18 | He is a former feature writer for the Daily Telegraph and edited the Sunday Telegraph 's Mandrake column . |
| 19 | He is a former Secretary of State . |
| 20 | Peter Kennedy is a former music lecturer . |
| 21 | Mr Bolona , the new finance minister , is a former head of the institute 's economics department . |
| 22 | He is also on the board of a number of City companies , and for his sins is a former Master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers . |
| 23 | He is on the board of a number of City companies , and is a former Master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers . |
| 24 | At the upper end of this attractive Cotswold village , on the River Eye , is a former water mill now used as a bakery . |
| 25 | Originally from Hull and now living near Llangollen she was previously with the Royal Exchange Theatre , Manchester and is a former Press officer for the National Musems and Galleries , Merseyside . |
| 26 | Dr Dewar is a former curate-assistant of Shankill Parish , Lurgan , and was a rector in Scarva , Magherally and Helen 's Bay . |
| 27 | He is a former test pilot and qualified on the Boeing 707 . |
| 28 | Sir Monty Finniston is a former chairman of the British Steel Corporation and now runs his own company , H.M. |
| 29 | He is a former chairman of the British Steel Corporation and of Tate $ Lyle plc . |
| 30 | He is a former chairman of the Nationalised Industries Chairmen 's Group . |