Example sentences of "a former head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir David is assured of the support of Sir Claus Moser , newly-elected President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and a former head of the Government Statistical Service from 1967 to 1978 . |
| 2 | Sir John Hoskyns , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's Policy Unit , has called for a radical reform of the government system if the effort to transform the economy is to succeed . |
| 3 | The grave claim that politicians are muddying the clear statistical waters has been made on a mumber of occasions now by Sir Claus Moser , a former head of the government statistical service . |
| 4 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Bolona , the new finance minister , is a former head of the institute 's economics department . |
| 6 | Its supervisory board is headed by Deutsche 's boss , Hilmar Kopper , and a former head of Continental , Helmut Werner , sits on Daimler 's management board , a second-tier of executive directors that actually runs the giant industrial firm . |
| 7 | As for possible Christian Democratic rivals to Mr Kohl , there is only one : Wolfgang Schäuble , the interior minister and a former head of the chancellery . |
| 8 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 9 | Robert Lion , general manager of the powerful state-owned investment bank Caisse des Depots et Consignations and a former head of the prime minister 's office , represented the French government in its investment in 27½ p.c. of la Grande Arche . |
| 10 | Sir John Adams , a former head of the CERN high-energy physics project and now scientific adviser to the European Commission , described the prevarications and indecision as ‘ a disaster . ’ |
| 11 | Yentob , a former head of music and arts , takes the BBC 's role as a cultural patron . |
| 12 | The money will go to the Motor Neurone Disease Association , which was represented at the event by executive committee member Mike Hawley , himself a sufferer from the fatal muscle-wasting disease and a former head postmaster in Southend . |
| 13 | John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing . |
| 14 | So , even before the current review of tests by Sir Ron Dearing , a former head of the post office who now runs the government 's Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority , Mr Patten began his U-turn . |
| 15 | Ralph Stanley , a former head of the Urban Mass Transportation agency in Washington , DC , who now works for Bechtel , says that he approached 44 firms on Wall Street in 1989–90 before finding the right combination of people to put together a private toll-road project . |
| 16 | Two farmers — Dries Bruwer , president of the Transvaal Agricultural Union , and Constand Viljoen , a former head of the armed forces — are leading lights in the Afrikaner People 's Front , the new right-wing alliance dedicated to promoting Afrikaner ‘ self-determination ’ . |
| 17 | Subsequently the efficiency unit was relocated in the Management and Personnel Office , but in 1983 — when Sir Robin Ibbs ( a former head of the CPRS and executive director of ICI ) succeeded Rayner as the Prime Minister 's Special Adviser on Efficiency — it was located physically in the Cabinet Office . |
| 18 | Peter Self cites a former head of the civil service , Lord Bridges : |
| 19 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 20 | A former head of the secret service , Mustafa Abas , was shot and killed in Istanbul on Sept. 26 . |
| 21 | On the same day Zheng Tuobin was replaced as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade by one of his deputies , Li Lanqing , a former head of the Foreign Investment Department . |
| 22 | The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " . |
| 23 | It was reported on May 14 that a revolutionary court had issued a warrant for the arrest and trial of Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali , a former head of the Islamic revolutionary courts [ see p. 37794 ] , on charges of illegal executions , embezzlement of public funds and corruption . |
| 24 | Under the terms of the Armed Forces Law , Rodríguez on Nov. 21 appointed Gen. Ramón Humberto Garcete , a former head of the First Army Corps , to the newly created post of C.-in-C. of the Army . |
| 25 | On March 31 Hans Modrow , chair of the East German Council of Ministers from November 1989 to April 1990 and a former head of the communist Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) in Dresden , was charged in Dresden with electoral fraud in the May 1989 local elections [ see also pp. 38782 ; 37827 ] . |
| 26 | Gen. César Mendoza Durán , a former head of the carabinero paramilitary police force and a member of the military junta from 1973 to 1985 under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , was arrested on April 2 by order of a judge investigating the kidnapping of eight people . |
| 27 | Roger Hollis , a former head of MI5 , who studied at Worcester College , Oxford , in the 1920s , is already a well-known suspect . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Hans-Jochen Vogel , a former head of the Social Democratic Party , had to be rescued by police from an angry crowd directly in front of the podium . |