Example sentences of "[prep] [art] former [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants . |
| 2 | Fellow airmen from 70 Squadron RAF provided a guard of honour for the former pupil of St Mary 's College , Wallasey . |
| 3 | Here we present neurological evidence for the former view from studies of a brain-injured patient with visual neglect . |
| 4 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 5 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 6 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 7 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 8 | The Wright amendment , named after a former speaker of the House , Jim Wright , permits flights leaving Dallas 's Love Field to fly only to cities in Texas and four neighbouring states . |
| 9 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 10 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 11 | Taxing problems The arrest of the former head of the Mexican Treasury 's personnel section may go some way to explaining why government departments always appear to be overstaffed , but incapable of offering decent service . |
| 12 | The new church was established at the end of June and united the Autocephalous Church in Ukraine with followers of the former head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , Metropolitan Filaret , dismissed in May [ see p. 38925 ] . |
| 13 | Currently in prison awaiting trial were numerous other senior officials of the Ceausescu regime , including many members of the former Council of Ministers and all but one of the 21 full members of the RCP executive political committee . |
| 14 | This attitude was not entirely absent from the ruling council of the RCM where , among others , the Marchioness of Reading , wife of the former Viceroy of India , judged every problem within narrow class conventions . |
| 15 | It then passes through the site of the former station at Traquair Park East and progresses via housing developments to Station Road , Corstorphine . |
| 16 | A good modern example is the decision of the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning , to convene a special court of five judges to hear the appeal in Davis v. |
| 17 | With the retirement of Lord Denning , it seems that the issue has been laid to rest for some time , since his successor , Lord Donaldson , and most of the current Lords Justices of Appeal do not appear to share the views of the former Master of the Rolls . |
| 18 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 19 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 20 | ‘ Poor Law ’ became ‘ Public Assistance ’ , and under the terms of the Act , Bedfordshire County Council set up a standing committee under that name to take over the functions of the former Board of Guardians . |
| 21 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |
| 22 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |
| 23 | The appointment of the former Minister of Justice Silvestre Siale Bileka as Prime Minister provoked strong criticism from the opposition . |
| 24 | Controversy surrounded the forced retirement from the armed forces of the former Minister of National Defence Vice-Adml . |
| 25 | The one woman , Ethel Snowden , wife of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer ( ‘ ignorant , stupid and horrid ’ , according to Reith ) , was a double token , chosen to represent the interests of both the Labour party and women . |
| 26 | A budget account is a good example of the former type of credit ; credit-sale , conditional sale and hire purchase fall into the fixed-sum credit category . |
| 27 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 28 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 29 | On Sept. 11 Jóse Dionisio Suárez y Esquivel , 51 , a Cuban exile living in the United States , admitted before a court in Washington DC that he had participated in the assassination of the former ambassador to the USA under the Allende regime , Orlando Letelier , on Sept. 21 , 1976 [ see pp. 28273-74 ] . |
| 30 | Although he received a standing ovation from the delegates , supporters of Keating continued to predict that — the denials of the former Treasurer notwithstanding — a second challenge to Hawke 's position would be delivered before the end of the year . |