Example sentences of "[vb past] to the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the establishment of the communist People 's Republic in 1949 remaining Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fled to the former Japanese colony of Taiwan . |
| 2 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 3 | In the autumn , however , the Japanese recaptured the airstrips , and an argument between Stilwell and Chiang led to the former being relieved of his command . |
| 4 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 5 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 6 | He was educated at St Malachy 's College in Belfast and went to the former Polytechnic at Jordanstown . |
| 7 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 8 | He looked to the former ducal retinue , including such non-northerners as Pole , Tyrell and Houghton . |
| 9 | He looked to the former ducal retinue , including such non-northerners as Pole , Tyrell and Houghton . |
| 10 | He said he wrote to the former Beatle about the problem but had not had a reply . |
| 11 | The anti-smoking campaigner — who played JR — wrote to the former premier to say many Americans were dismayed that she might become a consultant . |
| 12 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |