Example sentences of "former member [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The biggest opposition party , Laurent Gbagbo 's Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , won nine seats ; the Parti ivoirien travailliste ( PIT ) won one seat ( its leader Francis Wodie being elected in Cocody , an affluent suburb of Abidjan ) ; and two former members of the PDCI won seats standing as independents . |
2 | The Young Conservatives involved , intoned Naughtie , a strong note of disapproval in his voice , were mainly Scottish West Coast , former members of the Federation of Conservative Students , a body so high on lager that even Mr Norman Tebbit had been obliged , when Party chairman , to disband them . |
3 | Discoveries of arms caches in the area also led to rumours that former members of the South African-trained Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) counterinsurgency unit were involved . |
4 | More than 300 banks have been closed and one American banker has died in mysterious circumstances since police began their investigation , which includes allegations involving former members of the government . |
5 | These include , for example , rights to a selling exhibition of paintings by contemporary CIS artists in Germany ( 100 paintings at a price of DM600–3000 per painting , transportation costs and insurance to be paid by the German side ) ; rights for foreign firms to make reproductions to order of paintings held in museums in the CIS ( thirty copies at $1500 per copy ) , and exclusive foreign rights to the memoirs of cultural figures and former members of the government . |
6 | The centre-left Botswana Labour Party was formed in September 1989 , mostly by former members of the BNF . |
7 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
8 | Similar calls came on Feb. 24 from opposition leaders based in Saudi Arabia , including former members of the RCC now in exile . |
9 | Reports from the provinces said that former members of the Stasi are playing an active part in the crusade for revenge . |
10 | But a report to the Security Council by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , makes clear that the many former members of the defence forces , as well as counter-insurgency units — the notorious Koevoet in particular - though officially demobilised , are still on South Africa 's payroll . |
11 | Among those freed were Col. Luisito Sanchez and Capt. Danilo Lim , both of whom were former members of the elite First Scout Ranger regiment which , in 1989 , had occupied Manila 's financial district for a week during a failed coup attempt . |
12 | It was reported that the French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , had , in the course of a " flaming row " , objected strongly to the alliance as such claiming the right to seek new relations with former members of the Warsaw Pact . |
13 | These include : attendance allowances payable by the Department of Health and Social Security , wounds and disability pensions of former members of the forces , and disablement pensions under the National Insurance ( Industrial Injuries ) Acts . |
14 | The police were reported on July 17 to have arrested a total of 31 people in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the town of Gonaives and to have seized a warehouse full of " homemade " weapons following what the government described as a " conspiracy against the internal security of the state " by former members of the Tontons Macoutes . |
15 | Despite attempts at mediation by the FSLN leader and former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra , and by the Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , six people were reportedly killed and over 100 injured as gangs of armed supporters of the former FSLN government clashed with armed right-wing vigilantes ( among whom were former members of the contras ) during days of fighting in the capital , Managua . |
16 | The Vanuaaka Pati ( VP — Our Land Party , Walter Lini l. ) , a vehicle for " Melanesian socialism " ; Melanesian Progressive Party ( MPP , Barak Sope ch. ) ; established in 1988 by former members of the VP . |
17 | There are various former members of the BBC who believe that I was the instigator of the action against them , but unlike politicians I bear this sort of thing with a great deal of tolerance , taking what I think is a sensible view that one can not make omelettes without breaking eggs . |
18 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
19 | Some 5000 former members of the BNA were now enlisted in the regular army , but this left thousands more outside , restless and discontented . |
20 | Former members of the company have been invited to attend . |
21 | By the end of the month 775 former members of the StB were reported to have been dismissed . |
22 | Based in the occupied territories , it was created by former members of the Palestine Communist Party ( which had changed its name in late 1991 to the Palestine People 's Party ) . |
23 | Several former members of the Virginia Company offered him livings or chaplaincies . |
24 | In accordance with the creation in February of the Democratic Liberal Party ( formed from an amalgamation of Roh 's ruling Democratic Justice Party with two opposition groups — see p. 37247 ) , three of the new ministers were former members of the opposition . |
25 | The Botswana Labour Party , registered in September 1989 , said that it would not align itself either with communism or capitalism ; most of its officials were former members of the opposition Botswana National Front . |
26 | Thus many life peers are former members of the Commons . |
27 | More embarrassing still for the Republican Party was the admission on March 17 that three former members of the House who were currently in Bush 's Cabinet — Defence Secretary Dick Cheney , Labour Secretary Lynn Martin , and Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan — had also written uncovered cheques during the 39-month period ( July 1988-October 1991 ) covered by the investigation . |
28 | ( a ) the name or names of one or more solicitors , registered foreign lawyers or recognised bodies who are members or former members of the body ; |
29 | ( a ) the name or names of one or more solicitors , registered foreign lawyers or recognised bodies who are members or former members of the body ; |
30 | The memorial itself was designed by present and former members of the squadrons and the plans were drawn by students of the Reading College of Technology . |