Sentence examples for be a past from inspiring English sources

The boy's father is believed to be a past or present member of the FARC.

After 17 races and with 3 to go, the chances are that the winner of the 2012 world drivers' title will be a past champion.

Hill did not put in her report that Norris might be a past or future child molester – no psychological test has the power to determine that.

They could well still be found: Iraq is a big country, chemical and biological weapons are often small, and Mr Hussein was shown during the 1990s to be a past master at concealment.

What one remembers, though, need not be a past event.

Some of the grant-funding bodies even insist that your host should be a past fellow of theirs, so a certain amount of homework is necessary.

"This was obviously going to be a past-tense story," he said.

Aristocracy is a past tense.

She was a past president of International B'nai Brith Women.

Ronald Reagan was a past master at this.

This is a past event.