Example sentences of "[v-ing] the former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that Mrs Aquino can heal old wounds by allowing the former dictator to come home , at the same time disarming his supporters who scream that he is being done an injustice . |
| 2 | Given Nuremberg 's deeply repressed recent history with its strong Nazi connections , it is perhaps also not surprising that her idea of transforming the former site of the Nuremberg rallies into a peace park should meet with opposition . |
| 3 | Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days . |
| 4 | There were a variety of difficulties in administering the former Community Charge , one of the main ones was in maintaining an accurate Community Charge Register of all individuals resident within the Region at any particular time . |
| 5 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 6 | He is succeeded by Russell Planitzer , the company 's chairman and the leader of the buyout group that has struggled since acquiring the former parent , Prime Computer Inc in 1989 . |
| 7 | Their concern relates to my dismissing the former club captain , Colin Webley . |
| 8 | The case of Karamjit Singh Chahal led to the High Court last December ordering the former Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker , to reconsider his decision to deport the man . |
| 9 | On March 7 , 1991 , a Nanterre tribunal fined Le Pen F10,000 for insulting the former Minister for Public Services Michel Durafour with an anti-Semitic remark [ see also p. 37683 ] , although on July 2 a Versailles court cleared Le Pen of " publicly insulting " Durafour [ see p. 38354 ] ; on March 18 a Versailles appeal court increased a nominal one franc fine imposed on Le Pen in May 1990 [ see p. 37468 ] to F100,000 for describing the holocaust as a " detail of history " . |
| 10 | The authorities may insist on interviewing the former premier 's son personally . |
| 11 | Parys , who had become Poland 's first civilian National Defence Minister on his appointment in the new government of December 1991 , had provoked controversy by forcing the former Defence Minister , Vice-Adml . |
| 12 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 13 | The family feud came to a head on Monday when the 26-year-old issued a High Court writ , suing the former builder for more than £1 million . |
| 14 | As part of the procedure to gain planning permission , the Clarks had written to 40 houses surrounding the former rectory and nobody had objected . |
| 15 | The county comprised four districts based on city regions surrounding the former county boroughs of Sheffield , Barnsley , Doncaster and Rotherham . |
| 16 | One of the leading contenders , Mr Eduardo ‘ Danding ’ Conjuanco , added glamour to his campaign this week by persuading the former heart-throb actor Joseph Estrada to postpone his own presidential ambitions and become his running mate . |
| 17 | But they may be used in reconstructing the former profile of the river and therefore in deriving the sea level to which the river was graded . |
| 18 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 19 | Reclaiming the former steel site , reckoned to be one of the most polluted pieces of land in the country , would be one of the biggest urban redevelopment projects ever tackled in Europe . |
| 20 | The Council Tax Transitional Reduction Scheme is designed to limit the increase the household incurs when comparing the former Community Charge liability with Council Tax liability . |
| 21 | Mr Uppal took pleasure in inviting the former Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to Hounslow last year , presenting the borough as a harmonious model of good race relations . |
| 22 | The General People 's Committee of Unity ; The General People 's Committee of Defence ; The General People 's Committee of Industry ( amalgamating the former Light Industries and Strategic Industries portfolios ) ; The General People 's Committee of Energy ( merging the previous Petroleum and Electricity portfolios ) ; The General People 's Committee of Planning , Trade and Finance ( merging the former Planning and Economy portfolio and the Treasury ) ; The General People 's Committee of Education and Scientific Research ( grouping the former portfolios of Public Education , Vocational Training and Formation , Higher Education , and Scientific Research ) ; The General People 's Committee of Health and Social Security ( amalgamating the two former offices ) ; The General People 's Committee of Services , Tourism and Communications ( covering the former two Committees , Utilities and Public Works , and Communications and Transport ) . |
| 23 | Although IBM says a gateway is possible , it is taking the former approach , and the plan is gradually to convert its most important system software to the architecture . |
| 24 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 25 | ON A rugged hill track overlooking the former car plant at Linwood , Scottish motoring journalists turned out in force last week to put the latest version of a motoring legend through its paces over some very nasty terrain . |
| 26 | The procedure for placing the former type of advertisement is set out below under ‘ Placing of the Business Opportunity Advertisement by the client ’ . |
| 27 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 28 | Peter Gilchrist , a 21-year old Teessider , retained the British Open championship by beating the former world champion Norman Dagley 1,166-1,008 in the four-hour final in Leeds . |
| 29 | London 's Danny Smith , provisionally ranked 297 in the world , produced another upset by beating the former runner-up , Neal Foulds , 5-4 . |
| 30 | London 's Danny Smith , provisionally ranked 297 in the world , produced another upset by beating the former runner-up , Neal Foulds , 5-4 . |