Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [art] former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southern part of this unit is occupied by the fine earthworks of a moated manor site in a field called Court Garden , seventeenth-century houses , one of which is a former manor house , and Marston House , the nineteenth-century successor . |
| 2 | A detour of 2 kilometres to the left is worthwhile for a visit to The Binns , a National Trust for Scotland property which is the former home of the Dalyell family . |
| 3 | But the Duke of Marlborough says his son and heir , who 's a former drug addict , has n't even contacted HIM . |
| 4 | She is a former teacher who has lived on Teesside all her life . |
| 5 | With the appointment of a new director , who is a former air force chief of staff , a return to military funding , as in the early days of the laboratory , might seem an obvious option . |
| 6 | Sir Russell Fairgrieve , who is a former chairman of the Conservative party in Scotland . |
| 7 | John , who is a former stock car racer , said : ‘ Silverstone was so long we were flat out in fifth for most of the way . |
| 8 | Paton will have as his assistant Dick Campbell , who is a former manager of Cowdenbeath . |
| 9 | The latter requirement holds no difficulty , rather it is the former requirement which gives rise to difficulties because on occasions odour problems are complex , the source of the odour being difficult to identify , and it is not always possible to know whether or not a particular method of abatement will effect a cure in any given case . |
| 10 | It is the former image which the courts have tended to have before them when reviewing the decisions of corporate managers . |
| 11 | He is a former Secretary of State . |
| 12 | He is a former feature writer for the Daily Telegraph and edited the Sunday Telegraph 's Mandrake column . |
| 13 | He is a former chairman of the British Steel Corporation and of Tate $ Lyle plc . |
| 14 | He is a former chairman of the Nationalised Industries Chairmen 's Group . |
| 15 | He is a former chairman of the Belfast branch of the National Union of Journalists . |
| 16 | He is a former chairman of the board of management of Volkswagen . |
| 17 | He is a former chairman of Cleveland County Council . |
| 18 | He is a former test pilot and qualified on the Boeing 707 . |
| 19 | He is a former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton , and has been actively involved in local politics for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | He is a former pupil of Ormesby School and now attends Longlands College . |
| 21 | An expert in eighteenth-century Dutch art , he is a former director of Ohio 's Toledo Museum of Art , and former associate director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts . |
| 22 | He is a former moderator of the General Assembly . |
| 23 | Now Warden of Nuffield College , Oxford , he is a former president of the RSS and last year chaired a government committee on the spread of Aids . |
| 24 | He is a former president of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Scottish Economic Council . |
| 25 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 26 | He is the former manager of the Locomotion Leisure Centre at the Blackwell Grange Moat House hotel in Darlington . |
| 27 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 28 | He 's a former chairman of the magistrates association and has spent thirty one years on the bench . |
| 29 | He 's a former patient of the Wolfeson , and is cared for by his wife , a nurse who he met at the centre . |
| 30 | He 's a former government Chief Whip and remains ( slightly more surprisingly ) the president of the Auto Cycle Union . |