Example sentences of "former [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first book , The Lost Dominion ( 1924 ) , by a former ICS officer , Bennet Kennedy , is a powerfully reasoned defence of the pax Britannica and administrative autocracy , and might be described as an unusually uninhibited expression of the ICS point of view . |
| 2 | The furniture factories and timber yards in and around High Wycombe are the modern industrial outcome of a former woodland craft of the Chiltern beechwoods , when independent workers commonly known as ‘ chair-bodgers ’ made chair-legs , stools , tent pegs and spokes for wagon wheels , among other things . |
| 3 | No one could call Graham Little , our Bergführer and former Mountaineering Council of Scotland president , in the first flush of youth , but the man 's well over six feet and built like the proverbial … house , which does help . |
| 4 | GMTV 's first broadcast is scheduled for January 1 — hosted by Eammon Holmes and former ITN reporter Fiona Armstrong . |
| 5 | The flagship news show will be presented by former ITN man Alastair Stewart and Fiona Foster from BBC 's 999 . |
| 6 | The contract , which contains the same strict rules as those governing coverage of Parliament , has been awarded to Barraclough Carey Productions - which Mr Carey founded with a BBC documentary producer , Jenny Barraclough - and Sevenday Productions , whose director , John Underwood , is a former ITN home affairs correspondent . |
| 7 | Trevor , 53 , won the prestige job ahead of Julia Somerville and former ITN newsreader Alastair Stewart . |
| 8 | Peter Jay , former Treasury civil servant , Times economics editor , broadcaster and Ambassador to the USA , provided intellectual thrust ; Robert Kee , current affairs experience in depth ; David Frost , showbiz contacts ; and former ITN news reader Anna Ford , glamour . |
| 9 | The account was handled by former ABM deputy managing director Angus Fear , who left LH-S last week for J Walter Thompson . |
| 10 | It is an impressive body of photographic , graphic and specially commissioned work which has been put together by former NME photographer Adrian Boot and editors Neil Storey and Rob Partridge , with encouragement from Island boss Chris Blackwell and the head of Are You Experienced Ltd , Alan Douglas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Laurel shares the Nacionalista Party leadership with the even more disloyal former Defence Minister , Mr Juan Ponce Enrile . |
| 13 | Announcing the result of the ballot after a general management committee meeting , the constituency secretary , Mrs Mary Whitehouse , said Dr Gilbert , who is 62 and a former defence minister , had polled 62 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 14 | The trial collapsed after former Defence Minister Alan Clark admitted in court the Government knew firms were supplying machinery to Iraq and breaking an arms embargo . |
| 15 | On Monday the case against three executives from Midlands-based Matrix Churchill on sanctions busting charges collapsed because of inconsistent evidence from former Defence Minister Alan Clark . |
| 16 | Former Defence Minister Alan Clark , once a Thatcher favourite , said the homosexuals who dominated the Palace establishment were ‘ very suspicious ’ of Princess Diana . |
| 17 | Mohammed Abdel-Halim Abu-Ghazala , a former defence minister and imperious political rival to Mr Mubarak , was eased out of his job as presidential adviser when his role in a sex-and-bribery scandal was conveniently leaked to the press . |
| 18 | THE Prime Minister and former defence minister Alan Clark yesterday both signalled their willingness to testify before Lord Justice Scott 's inquiry into the arms for Iraq ‘ scandal ’ . |
| 19 | A number of TDs , including former Defence Minister , Michael Noonan , have spoken out publicly against any move by the Government to water down the constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Murder of former Defence Minister |
| 21 | Enrile , 66 , a former Defence Minister in the Aquino government , had played a crucial role in forcing President Marcos from office after his 1986 election defeat by Aquino [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 22 | Sharon , a former Defence Minister and the architect of Israel 's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 [ see pp. 31914-20 ] , had been assigned to the Trade and Industry portfolio in September 1984 [ see p. 33244 ] . |
| 23 | Okar also referred to the " dishonourable treatment " meted out to former Defence Minister Lt.-Gen. |
| 24 | Meanwhile the Secretariat of State for Internal Security was reorganized as the Delegation-General for National Security , headed by former Defence Minister ( until 1984 ) , Gilbert Andzé Tchoungui ( who replaced Denis Ekani ) . |
| 25 | [ For murder on Jan. 9 , 1990 , of former Defence Minister see pp. 37182-83 . ] |
| 26 | The two main changes were the appointments of ( i ) Hans Engell ( Con. ) , the parliamentary leader and a former Defence Minister , as Justice Minister ; and ( ii ) Kent Kirk ( Con. ) as Fisheries Minister in succession to Lars Gammelgaard . |
| 27 | The floor leader of the VVD , Joris Voorhoeve , resigned on May 1 , 1990 , to be succeeded by former Defence Minister Frits Bolkestein . |
| 28 | A judicial investigation had opened on July 7 , 1989 , into the possible involvement of Blecha , Gratz and a former Federal Chancellor , Alfred ( Fred ) Sinowatz , and the court dealing with the affair began preliminary inquiries in September into the role played by the SPÖ Finance Minister , Ferdinand Lacina ( Minister for Transport and State Industries at the time ) ; similar inquiries were also initiated into the former Defence Minister , Friedhelm Frischenschläger ( FPÖ ) , and a former Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Minister , Erwin Lanc ( SPÖ ) . |
| 29 | In France it was reported on Nov. 14 that former Defence Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement had said that a hitherto " dormant " French branch of an anti-communist NATO network had recently been dissolved by presidential order . |
| 30 | The assembly also elected three party vice-presidents , namely : ( i ) incumbent vice-president Anwar Ibrahim , the Education Minister widely regarded as a future party leader ; ( ii ) incumbent vice-president , former Defence Minister and Anwar 's long-time rival Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ; and ( iii ) Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid . |