Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence . |
| 2 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 3 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 4 | Considerable speculation exists as to the possible location of a new permanent site for the Modern Collection and suggestions so far have included the former Battersea and Bankside power stations on the south bank of the Thames and Canary Wharf in Docklands . |
| 5 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 6 | A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate . |
| 7 | The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council . |
| 8 | Pc Michael Williams said the dispute with a passenger in the Ford , Ian Coombes , had concerned a former girlfriend . |
| 9 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 10 | By 1990 its GDP per head , having of course just absorbed the former East Germany , stood at US$18,970 against the French equivalent of US$19,480 . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Ershad 's Jatiya Party suffered a serious blow when a court sentenced the former President to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " [ see p. 38288 ] . |
| 12 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 13 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 14 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 15 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 16 | A specially established criminal tribunal on Aug. 11 sentenced a former Pasok Deputy Finance Minister , Nikos Athanasopoulos , to three years ' imprisonment for criminal fraud and forgery . |
| 17 | Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation . |
| 18 | BLUE Circle Properties , the property management subsidiary of Blue Circle Industries , has sold the former headquarters of Birmid Qualcast to the West Midlands Fire Service for £1.75m . |
| 19 | The 34-year-old ex-British Open champion has bought a former hotel at Dolphinton , Strathclyde , which he plans to convert into a luxury mansion . |
| 20 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
| 21 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 22 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 23 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 24 | His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church . |
| 25 | President Roh Tae Woo appointed a former Army Chief of Staff , Lee Jong Koo , as the country 's new Defence Minister ; Lt.-Gen. |
| 26 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 27 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |
| 28 | A NEW YORK federal appeals court has overturned a key decision that would have allowed an former Belfast IRA man to remain in the United States . |
| 29 | Although in 1974 the Supreme Court had ordered President Nixon to surrender tapes in connection with the Watergate affair ( when Democratic Party premises had been broken into by Nixon 's supporters with his knowledge ) , no court had ever ordered a former President to surrender personal notes , and Greene 's decision was a departure from a ruling in the case of Oliver North , where requests for such material had been denied . |