Example sentences of "a former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenton , a former attendant at Hambleton leisure centre , and Sarah , who has just finished her HND in illustration at Cleveland College , Middlesbrough , have also received £700 from North Yorkshire County Council and are awaiting the result of a grant application to Richmondshire District Council . |
| 2 | Calvin Hill , a former footballer with Dallas Cowboys , extends the theory : ‘ Well , Black athletes are their descendants . |
| 3 | Laura Lonsdale , who is also one of Princess Diana 's occasional Ladies-in-Waiting and a former flatmate , discovered her only son Louis , aged 11 months , had died on Tuesday morning at her country home in Kinston Lisle , near Wantage . |
| 4 | Mr Gibson who has already received permission for a tea shop can now submit separate applications for the visitors ' centre and the conversion of a former smithy into a holiday cottage the two elements supported by councillors . |
| 5 | The announcement was made after magistrates in Osaka arrested Onoue and a former branch manager at Tokyo Shinkin , Tomomi Maekawa . |
| 6 | The third , Sotoo Tatsumi , was the head of the Sumitomo Bank , a former branch manager of which had illegally procured third-party loans for stock speculators . |
| 7 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 8 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety . |
| 10 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 11 | LORD ALDINGTON , a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Warden of Winchester School , was falsely branded a war criminal on the scale of the worst butchers of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia , his counsel , Charles Gray QC , told a High Court libel jury yesterday . |
| 12 | Lord Aldington , 75 and a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , is an ex-chairman of the Sun Alliance Insurance Group . |
| 13 | Gen Aoun said Mr Muawad was no more than ‘ a former deputy ’ of a parliament which he had dissolved . |
| 14 | And a former deputy head of the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , Mr Philip Redfern , trenchantly criticised his erstwhile colleagues for lacking the openness and courage to swim against the political tide . |
| 15 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 16 | Among yesterday 's appointments were General Atanasie Stanculescu , a former deputy defence minister , as Minister of Economics , and General Mihai Ghitac as Interior Minister . |
| 17 | Mr Mullett and his deputy , Simon Crawshaw , a former deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard , hope to provide sufficient intelligence on major criminals to lead to prosecutions . |
| 18 | Sydney Robin , a former deputy chairman at Great Universal Stores and a director at packaging group Lin Pac , will take over as chairman and the search for a new chief executive will begin . |
| 19 | ‘ Since the reforms from Third World markets are so small , it does n't matter if they do n't come , therefore we could donate these genes to the Third World ’ , he says , and supports a new initiative by a former deputy director of the International Wheat and Maize Centre ( CIMMYT ) to set up a gene brokerage between the rich and poor nations . |
| 20 | Finally , it was argued that the Special Commissioner had erred in ruling that the evidence of a former deputy head of the Revenue 's Enquiry Branch was inadmissible . |
| 21 | Reading Crown Court heard that Creagh , a former deputy housemaster , began a sexual relationship with the 12-year-old in 1988 , soon after the boy arrived at the £2,500-a-term boarding school run by Benedictine monks . |
| 22 | Marek Dabrowski , a former deputy finance minister in Poland and an adviser to the Russian government , takes the argument to its logical conclusion : comparison with Poland 's experience in switching from communism to capitalism shows that the ailments afflicting Russia have not been caused by the imposition of shock therapy . |
| 23 | A former deputy chairman of the Prison Commission , Allen was a sophisticated Whitehall practitioner , knowledgeable about and deeply interested in the reshaping of penal policy . |
| 24 | Terry McLaughlin , a former deputy Editor of the Irish News , is one of four journalists behind the setting up of the Down Democrat . |
| 25 | Others implicated in the coup attempt included Assadullah Sarwari , the Afghan ambassador to South Yemen ( and a former Deputy Premier and head of the country 's secret police ) , and Pacha Gol Watadar , a former minister who had defected to the mujaheddin in 1989 . |
| 26 | Particular anger was expressed by Western delegates over the appointment of a former deputy director of Soviet State Radio and Television , Henrikh Juskevicius , to the post of deputy director-general in charge of communications and information . |
| 27 | Sir Gaetan Duval , a former Deputy Prime Minister ( 1983-88 ) and the leader of the opposition Parti mauricien social-démocrate ( PMSD ) , was arrested on June 23 , 1989 , in connection with the alleged assassination in 1971 of a political activist , Azor Adelaide . |
| 28 | In late August 1989 Parliament voted that Nikos Athanasopoulos , a former Deputy Finance Minister , should stand trial before a special tribunal of 12 senior judges in connection with the so-called Yugoslav maize scandal . |
| 29 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Musa bin Hitam , a former Deputy Prime Minister , announced that he would rejoin the United Malays National Organization ( Baru ) — UMNO ( Baru , the dominant party in the National Front coalition ) — after having resigned from UMNO ( UMNO ( Baru ) 's predecessor organization deregistered in February 1988 — see p. 36555 ) in 1986 [ see p. 34294 ] . |
| 30 | Malcolm Reid , a former deputy commander of the Dominica Defence Force ( disbanded in 1981 ) , who was convicted and imprisoned with John , was also released . |