Example sentences of "former [noun sg] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former chairman of collapsed trading group Polly Peck is already on £3.5 million bail after being charged with theft and false accounting by the Serious Fraud Office last December . |
| 2 | Morris Marshall , former chairman of Merrybent Parish Council , wrote down his devastating experiences to try and help others . |
| 3 | Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal . |
| 4 | Sir Terence Conran , former chairman of retail conglomerate Storehouse Group and developer of the Bibendum restaurant , is spearheading the development of a restaurant and retail complex at Butler 's Wharf near Tower Bridge in London . |
| 5 | Roman catholic theologians teach at Trinity College , former bastion of protestant Ireland , and Roman catholic writers , including clergy , question the agreed wisdom of the Irish catholic hierarchy . |
| 6 | With a team of eminent academics , from Germany , France , Spain , Italy and Britain , an overall editor in the shape of Jean-Baptiste Durosell , former professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne , and the backing of a powerful group of international publishers , he attempted the task of assembling , in one substantial but accessible volume , a distillation of all the elements , chronological , geographical , ethnographic , cultural , philosophical , spiritual , which have blended down the centuries to create the state of ‘ Europeanness ’ . |
| 7 | WITH the most primitive economy in Europe lying in ruins around him , President Sali Berisha and his finance minister , Genc Ruli , a former professor of Marxist economics , spend much of their time travelling abroad in search of loans and investment . |
| 8 | The former mayor of Nice , Jacques Médecin , was found guilty on Jan. 6 of misusing public funds and was sentenced in absentia to one year 's imprisonment , ordered to pay nearly F2,500,000 ( about US$480,000 ) in fines and civil damages , and barred from holding public office for life . |
| 9 | Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan hopes to raise FFr60 million in March from the sale of the art collection of French Riviera socialite and former associate of Egyptian King Farouk , Turkish-born Ilhamy Hussein Pasha . |
| 10 | Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale . |
| 11 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 12 | Earlier , Darlington magistrates listened to evidence from a former employee of Sturdy who contacted The Northern Echo with new information half way through the trial . |
| 13 | Havel appointed Deputy Prime Ministers on Oct. 3 — Vaclav Klaus ( chair of the Civic Democratic Party ) , who also retained the Finance portfolio , and Pavel Hoffmann , whose former portfolio of Strategic Planning was abolished . |
| 14 | At King 's was the former teacher of little Ramsey at the choir school , now a member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , Eric Milner-White . |
| 15 | THE former husband of royal author Lady Colin Campbell branded her book on Charles and Diana a web of ‘ fantasies ’ yesterday . |
| 16 | The guest speaker is Dr. Mike Fitzgerald , director of the Polytechnic of West London and former Dean of Social Science at the Open University and former deputy director of Coventry Polytechnic . |
| 17 | Biya also appointed an additional Secretary of State at the Finance Ministry ( Roger Tshoungi , the former director of economic and financial controls ) , and a second Minister at the Presidency in charge of Special Missions ( Emmanuel Zoa Oloa , a former holder of this post and the incumbent Deputy Secretary-General at the Presidency ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This month 's parliamentary debates follow the report of the war crimes inquiry , headed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Thomas Hetherington , which followed up 301 allegations . |
| 20 | The report by Sir Thomas Hetherington , the former Director of Public Prosecutions , and Mr William Chalmers estimated that there were three cases in Britain where the evidence was sufficient to bring a prosecution and up to 124 cases worthy of investigation . |
| 21 | But the former Director of Public Prosecutions — who quit after he was caught kerb-crawling in King 's Cross , London — is talking about acting on stage . |
| 22 | Dr Nils Rosdahl , former director of public health in Denmark , has taken up a WHO assignment as adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Dr Bainbridge is a former director of public health in Darlington . |
| 24 | Dr Ivan Edwards , former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and the foremost expert on the pyramids , has suggested that if there is any chamber beyond the door it is likely to be the same size as the passageway . |
| 25 | The chairman of the vetting committee is Federigo Zeri , and it includes Everett Fahy , curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum , New York ; John Ayers , former Keeper of Far Eastern art , Victoria and Albert Museum ; Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti , director of the Ceramics Museum , Faenza ; Ester Cohen , lecturer in contemporary art , university of Florence , and Anna Somers Cocks , formerly Assistant-Keeper , Metalwork , V&A . |
| 26 | Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation . |
| 27 | THE former wife of convicted gang leader Michael McAvoy will be played by Sharon Maiden . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 30 | Arrest of former head of central bank |