Example sentences of "was former [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALBERT Cowen was former deputy leader of the Labour group in York and a railway worker in the city for 38 years two reasons to bring him into regular conflict with York 's Tory MP of nine years , Conal Gregory . |
| 2 | The runner-up was former contract herdsman Rex Goodfellow , who started farming on his own account three years ago on a 34 acres Cheshire County Council smallholding Westview Farm , Shotwick Park , Saughall , near Chester . |
| 3 | Among those pardoned was former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger whose forthcoming trial , which was due to have begun on Jan. 5 , had produced documentation which had suggested that Bush had been much more deeply involved in the affair than he had ever previously been acknowledged [ see also p. 39087 ] . |
| 4 | One of the scientists involved in the recent discovery that the big bang theory is essentially correct was former BAY CITY ROLLER DEREK LONGMUIR . |
| 5 | Amongst those members who changed their portfolios was former Economics Minister Chen Li-an , who became the new Defence Minister . |
| 6 | One of his targets was former Pool midfieldman Don Hutchison , but Liverpool would not let him go . |
| 7 | Among them was former MP Koigi wa Wamwere , arrested on his return from exile in Norway in October , who in 1988 had founded the banned opposition Kenya Patriotic Front ( KPF ) [ see pp. 36917-18 ] . |
| 8 | The most notable absentee , of course , was former captain Vivian Richards , who had made it clear that he wished to end his career in the World Cup where , in the previous four tournaments , he was the only batsman to exceed a career total of 1000 runs . |
| 9 | Among beneficiaries of the fraud named by the police was former Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello who received a monthly " salary " of US$10,000 from Farias . |
| 10 | The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances . |
| 11 | Dermod Harland ( tenor sax ) was former lead tenor with the Irish Youth Jazz Orchestra ( of which Anthony Kerr was also a member ) and his Quartet have supported Scott Hamilton in the Guinness Spot , where Dermod was invited to guest with Humphrey Lyttelton in 1987 . |
| 12 | This was former Fleet Air Arm FB.11 WJ244 once with the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend , but never restored . |