Example sentences of "as former " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the eastern European countries have their own banknote printers which are hard at work keeping up with inflation , but several , such as former Soviet states , the Baltics , Albania and Bulgaria might turn to the West for their own cash as well as hard currency . |
| 2 | Thatcher 's friends , such as former United Biscuits boss Sir Hector Laing , used to implore her to give British industry the kind of support that was rather more consistent than those who bought and sold its shares in the City . |
| 3 | Spicer and Pegler , now part of Touche Ross , has received a writ over its work as former auditor of Barlow Clowes . |
| 4 | Exclusive new developments and older character properties , such as former oil mills and farmhouses , are offered with prices ranging from FF 1.800.000 . |
| 5 | The address was by Mgr Bill Steele , Ecumenical Officer for the Diocese , who was welcomed back also as former parish priest . |
| 6 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 7 | Pressure came not only from hardline critics such as former Trade and Industry Minister Ariel Sharon [ see p. 37265 for Sharon 's Feb. 12 resignation ] and Second Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Housing and Construction David Levi , but also from members of his own faction , including Deputy Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Knesset ( parliament ) member Benny Begin . |
| 8 | We have already seen clear-cut reasons in the case of the associatives ( with the same reasons holding also for certain other types of adjective , such as former and sheer ) . |
| 9 | According to the chairman , applicants included 12 ex-internationals such as former Arsenal midfielder Graham Rix . |
| 10 | The campaign also will feature celebrities such as former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry singing soccer 's praises . |
| 11 | She sang in front of distinguished personages , such as former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Dame Margaret , and was a personal friend of Lady Megan Lloyd George . |