Example sentences of "[prep] a former [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thoughts on the monarchy invariably turn on the constitutional insights of a former editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot , after whom this column is named . |
| 3 | The latter , a son of a former Headmaster of The School for the Deaf in Liverpool was a world-famous consultant psychiatrist specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of deaf patients . |
| 4 | His father actively supported the parliamentarian cause in the English civil war but John Duncombe 's sympathies were Royalist and his marriage , on 12 July 1646 , to Elizabeth , daughter of a former chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Sir Humphrey May [ q.v. ] , allied him to one of the Stuarts ' most loyal families of servants . |
| 5 | It also included , until her recent death , Lady Goold , wife of a former chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland . |
| 6 | It is largely thanks to the perseverance of a former CO of the RAF Institute of Aviation Pathology , Group Captain Mason ( now Professor of Forensic Pathology at Edinburgh University ) , that there is international recognition of the contribution of the aviation pathologist in aircraft accident investigation by way of a specification recommending their positive involvement in formal investigations written into Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation . |
| 7 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 8 | They belong to the family of a former employee of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 9 | As a former chairman of the leisure committee , I am well aware of the work done to promote the super leisure facilities provided throughout Wear Valley by the former Labour council . |
| 10 | Most of our group were sent to pick grapes under the supervision of an ex-legionnaire whose age and Germanic inflexion marked him as a former member of the Wehrmacht . |
| 11 | The newspaper described " Captain Combo " as a former member of the Presidential Guard and " very close " to Bob Denard , the French mercenary who had been in charge of President Abdallah 's Presidential Guard at the time of the November 1989 coup , and who had lived since then in South Africa . |
| 12 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
| 13 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 14 | Describing the Labour leader as a former leader of the ‘ hard left ’ , it said people ‘ ca n't trust a man who will change any principle , abandon any policy , say anything to get elected ’ . |
| 15 | As a former student of the National Deaf Mute College in Washington , of which Dr Edward Miner Gallaudet was founder and first president , Maginn had personal knowledge of the excellence of the American system of deaf education . |
| 16 | As a former director of the CIA , Bush was familiar with the secret world , and comfortable with its tradition of covert operations . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 18 | I fell through the door with Marius and immediately started talking to a former member of the British Parachute Regiment who had known some friends of mine . |
| 19 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |
| 20 | The foreword is written jointly by a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former Under secretary of the Navy . |
| 21 | The position is neatly summarized by a former chairman of the British Railways Board , Lord Beeching : |
| 22 | The phenomenon is vividly described by a former chairman of the British Prices and Incomes Board : |
| 23 | This rationality is well described by a former head of the British civil service , Sir Douglas Allen : ‘ The desire for uniformity of treatment , coupled with accountability for decisions , require elaborate codes and rules so that a multiplicity of decision-makers can produce acceptably similar results in similar cases ’ ( cited in Thomson 1983 : 141 ) . |
| 24 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks Following the TV exposé of the horrors/miracle of being at the school founded by A S Neill , could we have a Speech Day address by the principal of Summerhill ; an explanation by a parent of why they have chosen it ; or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages gained by a Summerhill education . |
| 25 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks We asked you , following the TV exposé of Summerhill , for a Speech Day address by the principal , an explanation by a parent of why they sent their child there , or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages of a Summerhill education . |
| 26 | The paper on Special Needs however , written by a former director of the local ILEA division , raised the integration principle as one which was again open for discussion and decision . |
| 27 | It was first of all made by the Council 's planning consultants and then by the Planning Department set up under Local Government reorganisation , a department intended in part to oversee the Council 's housing policy and headed by a former employee of the Council 's erstwhile planning consultants . |
| 28 | He raised £800 for a charity that helps children with leukemia , a donation inspired by a former employee of the company on whose behalf Robert was running . |
| 29 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 30 | The UN General Assembly annually reiterates its recognition of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) , which was formed in June 1982 and which comprises three organizations opposed to the Phnom Penh regime , namely ( i ) the Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( the Khmers Rouges ) , the leading members of which had headed , under Pol Pot , the universally reviled government of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975-79 ; ( ii ) the Armée nationale sihanoukiste ( ANS ) , headed by a former ruler of the Kingdom of Cambodia , Prince Norodom Sihanouk ; and ( iii ) the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) led by Son Sann , a former Prime Minister under Sihanouk . |