Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 2 | Faced with a sharp fall in support for the CDU in the former East German Länder , CDU general secretary Volker Rühe ( with the tacit support of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ) had led the group within the party pressing for the replacement of de Maizière . |
| 3 | HANDLEY PAGE Hampden P1344 , imported into the UK from the former USSR by collector Jeet Mahal , is destined for the RAF Museum , after a series of negotiations . |
| 4 | the so-called ‘ defense line ’ to which the Ambassador had referred was in actuality merely an enumeration of those sectors in the western Pacific in which the United States held firm military commitments : i.e. our responsibilities as an occupying Power in Japan , our special interest in the Philippines as a former part of United States territory etc . |
| 5 | It also tried to associate the SPD with the former regime , using such slogans as " No more socialist experiments " , and making references to the " PDSPD " to blur the distinctions between PDS and SPD . |