Example sentences of "[adv] to the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | The behaviourist 's second line of defence is to distinguish between knowing and what is known , and say that the behavioural reduction applies only to the former . |
| 2 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 3 | Short was a child prodigy and the outstanding product of the English chess explosion of the 70s and early 80s which took English chess from the second division to second place only to the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 5 | Their destination the town of Graz in Austria close to the former Yugoslav border . |
| 6 | We by-passed the town and went straight to the former station , which is actually not in the town itself , but at Minllyn . |
| 7 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 8 | The deputy premier said there was no way back to the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Spacing of the bricks is marked on to the former on the inner and outer circumference , always starting form the centre brick so that it 's exactly symmetrical . |
| 10 | Forest manager Brian Clough is poised to challenge Middlesbrough 's resolve to hold on to the former England Under-21 international after having had Ripley watched during an impressive promotion season . |
| 11 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 12 | On a scale of judicial independence the British courts would be somewhere between those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , but rather closer to the former than the latter . |
| 13 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |