Example sentences of "[is] former " in BNC.
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| 1 | This policy of ‘ cost optimisation ’ will be continued into the current year , he said , and should be helped by the relocation of Siemens Nixdorf 's parent company , Siemens AG , into UK headquarters in Bracknell — Siemens ' lease on it 's former site in Sunbury has now run out . |
| 2 | Sharpness docks is now a shadow of it 's former self . |
| 3 | Their only hope now is that a buyer can be found who can afford vast sum , it will take to bring the building back to it 's former glory . |
| 4 | He began his career as a teacher and is former Director of Friends of the Earth . |
| 5 | Added to this was the fact that Worthing 's coach is former Alton captain and coach Robin Wood . |
| 6 | The President is former MP and Minister of Sport Denis Howell and with him is Malcolm Willcox of the Midlands Club Cricket Conference , Warwickshire Chairman of Cricket Dennis Amiss and Alan Oakman . |
| 7 | What relation is former Labour leader Michael Foot to the Daily Mirror columnist Paul Foot ? |
| 8 | The only new peer is former SDP president and Labour minister Shirley Williams , 62 . |
| 9 | Among the leading candidates is former England defender Graham Roberts , player-manager at Diadora League neighbours Enfield . |
| 10 | Another reprieved rebel is former skipper Mike Gatting , but the Middlesex man insisted he has n't thought about taking over the England captaincy when Graham Gooch gives it up . |
| 11 | His replacement is former star Steve Crooks . |
| 12 | Largest aircraft to leave the Museum and the one that could give the most problems when it comes to moving it , is former Spanish Dornier Do 24 flying boat HD5-1 . |
| 13 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 14 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 15 | The man who says he named both pieces of software is former 386BSD project leader and principal developer of BSD 2.8 and 2.9 , Bill Jolitz . |
| 16 | Much of the peripheral area is former coal field rather than rural . |
| 17 | But one man who will be the focus of attention of the three days , is former international and North opening bowler Hugh Milling . |