Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING the success of three previous seminars Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is holding a fourth talk shop on trading with the former East Germany . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 3 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 4 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 5 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 6 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 7 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 8 | Also in this category , however , is a group of establishments formed from the amalgamation of a college of education with one or more further education colleges , for example the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education consisting of the former Cartrefle College of Education , Wrexham ; Wrexham College of Technology ; and Kelsterton College of Technology , Connah 's Quay , Flintshire . |
| 9 | Six families living near the former Lambton Road , Middlesbrough , home of widower Thomas Pemberton , 64 , signed affidavits after asking the council to act . |
| 10 | According to the Washington Post of Oct. 21 the number of guestworkers living in the former GDR had gone down to 85,000 and the German government was offering US$2,000 and a free flight home if they would leave . |
| 11 | It was considered too onerous for a man to serve both as coroner and verderer , and verderers were often excused from serving in the former office . |
| 12 | GRIEVING mother Barbara Edwards yesterday welcomed the inquest verdict passed on her Bosnia hero son , Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards , who was shot in Sniper 's Alley while serving in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 16 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 17 | All ten research reactors at Moscow 's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy are unsafe , according to the former head of the city 's research reactor inspectorate , Vladimir Kuznetsov . |
| 18 | Plans for eight flats , a shop and garaging on the former Ringtons Tea site and a neighbouring builder 's yard in Oxford Road , Hartlepool , were thrown out by councillors after planners said the development was too intense for the area . |
| 19 | Duke Street is now set to house a formidable trio of book dealers : moving into the former Omell Galleries on the third corner of the street , opposite both St George 's and Thomas Heneage Books , will be Simms Reed , the antiquarian and art book dealers . |
| 20 | Bouldery morainic drift is also extensive in the valleys radiating from the former centres of ice accumulation in the Harris mountains . |
| 21 | Seven-year-old Redmond , whose father is Farrah 's longtime darling Ryan O'Neal , coolly sipped a soft drink while strolling alongside the former Charlie 's Angel in Los Angeles . |
| 22 | The Bank of England is understood to have told the Romanian authorities they will have to apply to the British courts to have bank accounts belonging to the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu frozen , writes Mark Milner . |
| 23 | The sale of weapons belonging to the former East Germany to Finland and Uruguay was confirmed by a German Defence Ministry spokesman on Jan. 3 . |
| 24 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 25 | Photographs of the collection hanging in the former Kronprinzen-Palais ( destroyed in the war ) show paintings by Franz Marc , Kirchner , Schlemmer , Beckmann , Feininger , Nolde , Klee , Kandinsky , Corinth and Grosz among others , and sculpture by Kolbe , Belling , Lehmbruck , and Barlach . |
| 26 | In the case of the exclusive language of traditional hymns , it is better that congregations be helped to respect and accept such hymns as coming from a former age than that they be either inappropriately altered or abandoned altogether . |
| 27 | The West is moving towards using military force to take aid to those suffering in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | Fighting between the former allies yesterday sent more terrified Croat refugees fleeing from the city as desperate Croat defenders pounded positions occupied by Muslim troops . |
| 29 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |
| 30 | Fighting in the former Yugoslavia has been accompanied by accounts of mass killings and rapes , torture , so-called ethnic cleansing or mass expulsions of rival ethnic groups , and detention centres reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps . |