Example sentences of "former [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |
| 2 | Nicanor Costa Mendez , a former Foreign Minister and a key figure in Argentine diplomacy at the time of the Falklands/Malvinas war of 1982 , died of cancer on Aug. 2 , aged 69 . |
| 3 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 4 | A three man committee of inquiry was set up , consisting of a judge , a former chief constable and a medical specialist . |
| 5 | ( A senior African nurse told me this ; and so did Miss Barbara Tredgold , sister of the former Chief Justice and a great champion of the Africans . ) |
| 6 | In 1987 it formed a joint venture with Burmin Exploration and Development , a company whose Managing Director , Des Burke , is a former Cistercian monk and a former geologist for Tara , to exploit the gold find . |