Example sentences of "the former [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 16 a Warsaw court acquitted Jerzy Urban , the former spokesman for Poland 's communist government , of spreading pornography by reprinting an explicit picture from Penthouse magazine in his satirical weekly magazine Nie ( " No " ) . |
| 2 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
| 3 | This is not unlike the former position for companies and this too produced many circumstances where organizations chose not to follow professional prescription and there did not appear to be the power or the will to enforce compliance . |
| 4 | On July 26 Erich Mielke , 82 , the former Minister for State Security , was arrested and charged with preparing internment camps for dissidents and harbouring terrorists [ see below ] . |
| 5 | In the past , Mace have been ably and generously assisted by top sports personalities — men and women such as Linford Christie , Sebastian Coe , Kriss Akabusi , Dickie Davies and the former Minister for Sport , Colin Moynihan . |
| 6 | Among 20 others acquitted was the former Minister for Tourism , José Aspiras . |
| 7 | That 's how one Irish farm leader sums up commissioner Ray MacSharry , the former minister for agriculture , whose radical reform plan for the CAP has set alarm bells ringing in his native country . |
| 8 | Earlier , the former Minister for Water and Forests , Angel Algo Nchama , had been dismissed after being arrested on corruption charges ; he received a two-year prison sentence in November 1989 . |
| 9 | There is also a long standing and somewhat unique tendency in this country to treat front and back gardens as separate entities , the former being for parking and access , the back for everything else . |
| 10 | The church of St Margarets in the shadow of the Houses of parliament was filled today with politicians from both sides of the house who paid tribute to the former MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury Nicholas Ridley . |