Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixth-century papal sacristy used during Lent has been located in the former wine cellar of the convent . |
| 2 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 3 | According to sources , a bankruptcy order had been made against the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee by the solicitors Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens , who had previously acted for him , and the Inland Revenue petition was automatically dismissed . |
| 4 | ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash . |
| 5 | The hotel bedrooms and self-catering apartments , are distributed between the former tower , which also houses the reception , bar and restaurant , and the surrounding houses . |
| 6 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 7 | They will be joined by the former collection of books on architecture from the libraries of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Musées de France at present in the Louvre . |
| 8 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 9 | The minister , Mr Kobie Coetsee , said that a prosecution would be brought against the former security branch policeman on death row , Almond Nofomela , for the police murder of the civil rights lawyer , Griffiths Mxenge . |
| 10 | a In Gardynik , it was held , dismissing an appeal by the defendant , that sexual assault was not to be equated with the former offence of indecent assault , with its highly subjective moral overtones . |
| 11 | In assessing the financial relief to be awarded to the former wife of a millionaire after their divorce , pursuant to section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( as amended by section 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 ) , the court should not calculate the wife 's share solely by reference to her needs , but could take account also of any exceptional contribution she had made to the creation of the husband 's wealth . |
| 12 | Its next development will be the 250bhp JPE , the Jonathan Palmer Evolution , which will be tested by the former Formula One racing driver . |
| 13 | The Government conceded defeat on the whole ‘ additionality ’ issue and the Euro money could be released for the former coalfield areas . |
| 14 | Dating back to the 18th Century the main house has been converted from the former guest quarters . |
| 15 | The scheme has been associated with the former mining and railway village of Percy Main and with the Cricket Club ( historically a pretty proletarian league institution ) by reorganizing the road layout . |
| 16 | That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world . |
| 17 | Most of the ex-municipal cars were accommodated in the former part , but Walthamstow and the three companies were given numbers in the 20005 above the highest L.C.C . |
| 18 | The detailed plans were drafted by the former army GOC Sir John Wilsey . |
| 19 | PLANS to build a golf course near Tom King 's Wiltshire home are being opposed by the former Defence Secretary . |
| 20 | Charges carrying sentences ranging from 14 years to life imprisonment were filed against the former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd . ) |
| 21 | Their husbands brought their cars to the rally which is being held at the former car-plant at Dunmurry this weekend . |
| 22 | The temperature rise is registered in the former case by an attached or adjacent thermocouple that delivers its thermoelectric e.m.f. to a moving-coil voltmeter of suitable sensitivity . |
| 23 | Some support , however , is given to the former possibility by the fact that an equally well-defined Roman road also runs along the ridge , providing another possible line for the boundary ‘ surveyors ’ to use . |
| 24 | The report — from the City Research Project , which is chaired by the former chairman of the Securities Association , Stanislas Yassukovich — also says that the UK financial regulatory system has failed to focus adequately on fraud and misappropriation . |
| 25 | The only even superficially attractive argument from the names in favour of his view is the implicit one that " Fenari-oglu " is used in the former case but not in the latter . |
| 26 | Princeton Diagnostic is headed by the former director of President Reagan 's Drug Abuse Policy Office , Mr Carlton Turner , along with a retired rear admiral and a self-described ’ international expert on toxicology ’ . |
| 27 | The view is endorsed by the former World Boxing Council lightweight champion , Ken Buchanan , the only British winner of the prestigious American award , the Edward J Neil Trophy For Boxing Excellence . |
| 28 | The dissolution of BCP cells in the armed forces had already been ordered by the former politburo on Jan. 24 and had been accomplished by Feb. 15 , while at the end of January a congress of the Union of Journalists had banned party cells from newspapers and publishing houses . |
| 29 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 30 | His position was filled by the former chair of the board , Detlev Rohwedder , who was succeeded as chair by Jens Odenwald , chairman of the West German Kaufhof retail stores chain . |