Example sentences of "[art] former ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 2 | The balance within the militarized police forces tilted the other way : of some 68,000 Civil Guards and Assault Guards , 60 per cent remained loyal : surprisingly in view of the former 's reputation as the hammer of the rural poor , but crucially for the early failure of the rising in many places . |
| 3 | Both coercion and consent were typical of the Dukeries villages , therefore , and the mechanisms instituted by employers and their employees were integral to daily life and the maintenance of the former 's hegemony . |
| 4 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 5 | The major differences between Kuhn on the one hand and Popper and Lakatos on the other is the former 's emphasis on sociological factors . |
| 6 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 7 | Originally an Artisans ' trophy but extended to the senior club at the former 's invitation in 1951 . |
| 8 | In late October it was reported that there was disagreement between Osborne and his deputy , Benjamin Chalmers , over the former 's support for independence from the UK . |
| 9 | Analysts regarded the arrest as an indication of the increasingly strained relations between the PBS and UMNO , following the former 's withdrawal from the National Front coalition in October 1990 . |
| 10 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 11 | A deal struck between the government and the central bank at the beginning of April increases the former 's control over subsidised credits . |
| 12 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 13 | The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Great Brington contains the tombs of Lawrence , the great-great-great-grandfather of George Washington and the former 's brother Robert and sister-in-law which date from the early 1600s . |
| 14 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 15 | The former 's adherence to conservatism was tempered by an easy and agreeable manner that disarmed public , politicians and the press alike . |
| 16 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 17 | Perhaps unlike many such a contract in the UK , the agreement between Philips and ISS required the latter to employ all the former 's canteen personnel o |
| 18 | On the former 's side , there was a clear , oft-stated belief that the union movement represented the best chance of overthrowing the government , given both the electoral weakness and the apparent shift from ‘ left wing principles ’ of the Labour party ( see Crick 1985 , p. 140 ) . |
| 19 | Recently , bubble-jet and laser printers have begun to be installed , where the former 's quietness and the latter 's high quality output were major factors . |
| 20 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 21 | London-based Powercore International Ltd and Paris-based Isocor Corp have announced a joint technology agreement to enable the former 's Network Scheduler 3 workgroup product to operate as a native client application over Isocor 's suite of X400 messaging systems . |
| 22 | While one party to an internal armed conflict will be the government representative of the State party to the Convention , the other will be a body of individuals challenging the former 's authority . |
| 23 | A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month . |
| 24 | The major event in Romanian foreign policy was the conclusion of a treaty of co-operation , good neighbourliness and friendship with the Soviet Union , signed by Iliescu and Soviet President Gorbachev on April 5 during the course of the former 's visit to Moscow . |