Example sentences of "[prep] the former [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Liz joined JM in January 1990 working for the former Personnel Director , in Hatton Garden . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Garland ruled last week that it was impossible for the former officers to receive a fair trial because of the saturation publicity that followed the release of the six , two years ago . |
| 3 | We believe that the next step , in considering large-scale help for the former republics , should be taken through the International Monetary Fund . |
| 4 | But the prime minister failed to broaden his alliance as the former Communists of the Democratic party of the Left and the small Republican Party refused to join his administration . |
| 5 | BULAWAYO , ZIMBABWE ( Reuter ) — Joshua Nkomo , 72 , threw a huge birthday and 40th wedding anniversary party at the weekend and President Robert Mugabe was there to seal the unity between the former rivals . |
| 6 | It said UN military observers helped after it collapsed in a dispute over control of the local police , prompting new fighting for territory yesterday between the former allies . |
| 7 | Fighting between the former allies yesterday sent more terrified Croat refugees fleeing from the city as desperate Croat defenders pounded positions occupied by Muslim troops . |
| 8 | Kulishov does not rule out some complications in the talks with Germany and Hungary caused by relations between the former republics of the USSR . |
| 9 | In spite of the fact that the Russian parliament suspended the agreement on Russian territory , an interdepartmental commission , which includes Russian officials , is still at work in Minsk sorting out claims between the former republics of the USSR . |
| 10 | At a meeting of CIS Ministers of Culture in Minsk on 27 December 1991 , possible claims between the former republics were laid out . |
| 11 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 12 | Also planned was a covered swimming-pool , linked to the main house through the former cow-houses , which would be converted into changing accommodation and general storage . |
| 13 | WOLVES are inviting Hungarian side Honved to celebrate the opening of the new Billy Wright stand , named after the former Wolves and England captain , at Molineux next December . |
| 14 | All of the former officers remained stripped of their rank and were barred from holding public office . |
| 15 | Contrary to the popular myth of largely extempore worship , there is a more or less set liturgical pattern for most of the services of the former Congregationalists and Presbyterians , who , together with the Churches of Christ , form the United Reformed Church . |
| 16 | Others , however , see the individual 's emotional , social and other more personal needs as top priority and put their emphasis on such things as stimulation , reality orientation and reminiscence work , whilst still acknowledging the value of the former services . |
| 17 | Of the former criteria , arts broadcaster Melvyn Bragg could be on this weekend 's list . |
| 18 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
| 19 | In Wales , old republican soldiers and even some of the former disciples of the Fifth Monarchist , Vavasor Powell , accepted places on the remodelled bench in 1687 – 8 , much to the horror of local Tories , who portrayed the new magistrates as " the old gang " of 1641 . |
| 20 | Yet in many pastoral societies , and in the modern West and Japan , they are widely used , in some of the former instances becoming virtual panaceas . ) |
| 21 | THE appearance of the former Wolves defender Derek Jefferson in last week 's column prompted a golden memory of 1975/76 from Iain Woods of Great Barr , Birmingham . |
| 22 | There are ad hoc bodies dealing with some of the functions of the former counties , but these need not detain us as their tasks do not fall within the main concerns of this book . |
| 23 | Much of the former forests has been cleared by cutting and burning . |
| 24 | The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness . |
| 25 | But now modern information technology is making many of the former tasks of middle managers redundant . |
| 26 | The former development was probably inevitable as these were the areas of expertise of the staff of the former colleges of education and where the teaching facilities existed . |
| 27 | Another interesting development of the last year or two has been the introduction of courses in art and design , leading to the CNAA BA , by a few of the former colleges of education with large art , design and craft resources , which are now part of colleges of higher education . |
| 28 | Such a redeployment has not , however , been easy , as few of the former colleges of education staff have had much experience of further education and were not fully turned to its needs , particularly in respect of curriculum development . |
| 29 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 30 | The report called for a major debate each year on this White Paper and recommended the creation of a new public Expenditure Select Committee to take the place of the former Estimates Committee . |