Example sentences of "a former director " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new directors are Peter Churchill , 59 , a barrister who specialises in corporate law , Peter Ryan , the chairman of Elga Group and a former director of conglomerate Thomas Tilling , now owned by BTR , and Brian Smith , who was group managing director of Rank Organisation until 1983 . |
| 2 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 3 | Sir John Cuckney is chairman of 3i Group plc and Royal Insurance plc and a former chairman of Westland Group plc ; deputy chairman of TI Group plc ; a director of Brixton Estate plc and a former director of Midland Bank plc . |
| 4 | As a former director of the CIA , Bush was familiar with the secret world , and comfortable with its tradition of covert operations . |
| 5 | The system was invented by Brigadier Sir Nicholas Somerville , a former director of army recruiting , to a brief set by Sir Anthony Royle , then the party vice-chairman in charge of candidates . |
| 6 | Alois Podhajsky , a former director of the Spanish Riding School , in his book The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship ( 1973 ) , remarks that ‘ Pluvinel and Guérinière had many followers who influenced teaching throughout the years that followed . |
| 7 | Outside the courtroom , one of the defendants , Elizabeth Brimelow , a former director and head of compliance of County NatWest , said : ‘ Only a judge could say it is too soon two-and-a-half years after you were arrested . ’ |
| 8 | Frank Barnaby is a former director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| 9 | A week after Chapman 's resignation George Cripps also left the club , after handing over the books for the previous two years to Mr J. W. Bromley , a former director . |
| 10 | In giving the 1990 Robens Coal Science Lecture at the Royal Institution , Sir John Mason ( a former Director of the Meteorological Office ) urged caution in interpreting the results of the massive atmospheric and oceanic modelling exercises ; as the equilibrium models are refined to take account of the thermal lag in oceans , etc. , lower values of predicted changes are likely . |
| 11 | Professor Frank Barnaby , a former director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and co-founder of Just Defence , said that ‘ staggering advances ’ in microelectronics and communications systems mean that the technology for stopping tanks , aircraft and ships is already available and suitable for the battlefield . |
| 12 | Peter Jopp , a former director kicked off the BRDC board at an extraordinary general meeting on October 1 , says : ‘ What has happened is very sad for Silverstone and the BRDC . |
| 13 | Kevin D'Silva , interestingly a former director of Hanson , is building a medical equipment business from the wreckage of an old , ailing Scottish textile company . |
| 14 | A graduate of Manchester Business School and a former director of a Hanson subsidiary , he led a management buy-in of a medical equipment company in 1981 . |
| 15 | Mr Hudd , a former director of Kunick ( whose activities ranged from fruit machines to nursing homes ) , and Mr Irens , former finance director of First Leisure , alighted on shell company Winchmore in March . |
| 16 | A former director of Williams Holdings he knew all about vulture purchasing from his days with Nigel Rudd and Brian McGowan . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs are also waiting to hear the depositions , hitherto withheld , of three important witnesses : Richard Camber , a former director of Sotheby 's ; Felicity Nicholson , head of the Antiquities Department at Sotheby 's , and Dr Anna Bennett of the Institute of Archaeology in London , who conducted the scientific tests on the treasure before it was first revealed to the world in February 1990 . |
| 18 | Among the design books issued by Wasmuth is Deutsche Keramik von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart , a richly illustrated handbook on the 8000-year old history of pottery in Germany by Adalbert Klein , a former director of Dusseldorf 's Hetjens Museum for ceramics ( DM128 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | a former director of the CSIR 's Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology now at the University of Cape Town , interprets the allocation as an attempt by the government to rescue the CSIR in times of recession and a continuing decline in military contracts . |
| 21 | Mr Jørgenson is experienced in radio journalism and is a former Director of the International Mass Media Institute in Norway . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The persons named in the notice as being under investigation included S. , a former director of G. Plc . |
| 24 | It was a condition of that appointment that a former director of W. Plc. had no further contact with its affairs . |
| 25 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 26 | The average weekly number of employees , including directors , during the year was as follows : A pension of £3,000 ( 1990 — £2,500 ) was paid to a former director . |
| 27 | A former Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies , he is now Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science . |
| 28 | ‘ In terms of hardware , you just needed a couple of PCs and a good modem with ample error correction to use a standard telephone line , ’ said , a former director in a large Home Counties-based software company who last year gave up commuting weekly from his home in Drumnadrochit , near Inverness , to set up his own business , Software Technology , developing customised local networks software for the clients of large original equipment manufacturers . |
| 29 | Hadj Nasser , a former director of monetary policy for the presidency , replaced Badereddine Nouioua as director of the Central Bank of Algeria on Oct. 18 , 1989 , promising to fight inflation and to " reunify " the dinar exchange rate . |
| 30 | Kearney was replaced by William E. Taylor , a former director of the Federal Reserve 's division of banking supervision and regulation . |