Example sentences of "of [art] former [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A walk down the Munstergasse to the flomanesque cathedral consecrated in 1103 takes you past a treasury of old houses , their oriels jealously preserved , and brings you to the shapely cloister archways of the former zu Allerheigen ( All Saints ) monastery , now transformed into a museum which is one of the most important in north Switzerland . |
| 2 | On Nov. 26 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom government had been in breach of the Convention on Human Rights in attempting to prevent three newspapers from publishing extracts from Spycatcher , the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright [ see pp. 35537-39 ; 36155-56 ; 36502-03 ; 37158 ; 37784 ] . |
| 3 | They were bought , along with other items of equipment , for a new tourist line which was to be constructed on part of the former 4ft.0ins. gauge Padarm Railway . |
| 4 | In being trusted with one delicate mission after another ( the Diplomatic Service Appeals Board , compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned Guildford Four , the grievances of the former M.I.5 officer , Colin Wallace ) Calcutt was bidding fair to become the chief of this tribe in the nineties . |
| 5 | Parrying criticism of the former 's 1976 energy report by emphasising that two-thirds of the Central Policy Review Staff 's work was unpublished , he illustrated its merits largely via one of his own individual contributions . |
| 6 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 7 | The balance within the militarized police forces tilted the other way : of some 68,000 Civil Guards and Assault Guards , 60 per cent remained loyal : surprisingly in view of the former 's reputation as the hammer of the rural poor , but crucially for the early failure of the rising in many places . |
| 8 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 9 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 10 | Both coercion and consent were typical of the Dukeries villages , therefore , and the mechanisms instituted by employers and their employees were integral to daily life and the maintenance of the former 's hegemony . |
| 11 | A different illustration is provided by the collaboration in 1983–84 between the ILEA and the London Institute of Education , in which one of the former 's advisory teachers acted as placement tutor for six students from the emotional/behavioural difficulties option of the latter 's Diploma Course . |
| 12 | The major event in Romanian foreign policy was the conclusion of a treaty of co-operation , good neighbourliness and friendship with the Soviet Union , signed by Iliescu and Soviet President Gorbachev on April 5 during the course of the former 's visit to Moscow . |
| 13 | They coined the phrase " ecological debt " to describe the relationship between the North and South in terms of the former 's excessive use of global resources . |
| 14 | The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture . |
| 15 | McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim . |