Example sentences of "a former [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen Laughton , a former Panel member who respected him greatly said he was worried about the pressure that was likely to be put on him if he did n't toe the local authority line . |
| 2 | A close political ally was Airey Neave , a former intelligence officer who was to be murdered by the IRA in the precincts of Westminster . |
| 3 | Goulding , a former Wigan player who joined his home town club in a deal which took fullback Alan Tait to Leeds , has already made six appearances for Great Britain and five for the under-21s . |
| 4 | A former SAS soldier who 's conquered Everest without Oxygen equipment is having to spend another night there at high altitude because he 's suffering from snow blindness . |
| 5 | A former SAS soldier who 's climbed the highest mountain in the world without oxygen has been describing how he struggled to breathe . |
| 6 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |
| 7 | Jack Hathorne was a former RAF pilot who went on to test fly Hurricane fighters being built at Brockworth during the second world war . |
| 8 | He said Walters — a former RAF pilot who became an intellectual high-flyer — had suffered anguish over the affair . |
| 9 | She was a former council tenant who had already bought her council house . |
| 10 | Archie was a former cinema manager who became the most successful chairman in the post-war history of Darlington Football Club . |
| 11 | He was also the company 's standard bearer at the town 's annual common riding and as a former Master upholsterer he previously represented the Corporation of Hammermen in a similar capacity . |
| 12 | Alhaji Abbo is a former truck driver who has successfully developed a 3,000 hectare maize farm and oil extraction plant in northern Cameroun . |
| 13 | Tizard , a former university lecturer who was elected mayor in 1983 , was the former wife of senior Labour Party politician and ( until January 1990 ) Defence Minister Bob Tizard . |
| 14 | The report was prepared by Benjamin Alexander , a former senior US government official and a former university president who was trained as a chemist . |
| 15 | The Senate ethics committee rebuked Senator Mark Hatfield ( Rep. , Oregon ) on Aug. 12 for " improper conduct " in accepting and failing to disclose gifts and travel expenses from a former university president who had sought Hatfield 's assistance support in gaining a government grant . |
| 16 | Clarke is a former nightclub bouncer who joined the Foreign Legion in 1980 but went absent without leave just nine months later . |
| 17 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 18 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 19 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 20 | Andrew is a direct , no-nonsense man — a former Army officer who now runs his own shoe importing business . |
| 21 | Yesterday Roderick , a former army officer who was flown back to Jersey at the weekend after fighting extradition from Gibraltar , went with police to an area where it 's thought the bodies had been buried . |
| 22 | Mark , 26 , is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War . |
| 23 | An electoral alliance , the Nationalist Action for Peace ( Acción Nacionalista por la Paz ) , was unexpectedly announced on Feb 7 by Carlos Pizarro Leóngómez , leader of the left-wing guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , and José Joaquín Matallana , a former Army general who as Director of the Department for the Administration of Security ( DAS ) in the mid-1970s had been responsible for combating the activities of the M-19 and other guerrilla groups . |
| 24 | PCD general secretary Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio , a former Defence Minister who had left the MLSTP in 1982 and had formed the PCD as an underground organization in 1987 , was named to form an interim government pending presidential elections on March 3 . |
| 25 | Gen. Oufkir was a former Defence Minister who reportedly committed suicide shortly after leading an attempt in August 1972 to assassinate King Hassan by shooting down the royal jet [ see pp. 25485-86 ] . |
| 26 | Ken Sessford , a former Consett steelman who chaired the meeting , said : ‘ The Middlesbrough and South Wales people will be pretty pleased that Consett has now joined forces in this campaign . |
| 27 | Best-selling thriller writer Ken Follett , a former newspaper reporter himself , put in £10,000 . |
| 28 | The 47-year-old businesswoman , of Crowthorne , Berkshire , a former air hostess who flew with the Queen , was stabbed repeatedly with an eight-inch carving or butcher 's knife while loading shopping into her car near the station . |
| 29 | A FORMER shipyard site which used to support hundreds of jobs will soon provide employment again as a result of a major redevelopment scheme by a Government agency . |
| 30 | Stockdale was a former Navy pilot who was shot down in Vietnam in 1965 and held prisoner for 2,714 days , during which time he suffered extensive maltreatment and torture . |