Example sentences of "[to-vb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 2 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 3 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 4 | Last night some Conservatives argued that government whips should demand that Mr Heseltine urge retreat on Sir Anthony , who has said he would like to see the former Defence Secretary and ardent pro-European lead the party . |
| 5 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 6 | Stop at Wynau to see the rapids , and make a detour to the left , north of Langenthal , to see the former monastery of St Urban , which has a famous baroque church . |
| 7 | John Parsons in Nice is saddened to see the former world No 1 humbled in another comeback attempt at the age of 35 |
| 8 | Naturally the coach roads were the worst affected , while off the beaten track Green and no doubt others , continued to enjoy the former hospitality and generosity . |
| 9 | It is true that estoppel by representation was not pleaded , but estoppel by deed was pleaded and the evidence was sufficient to support the former plea . |
| 10 | An education report that appears to support the former theory is a pussyfooting piece of dangerous nonsense , says John Rae . ’ |
| 11 | The latter 's leader , Goukouni Guët was a former close supporter of Hissène Habré , but an MDD spokesman in Paris denied that the rebels wanted to reinstate the former President , who was ousted in December 1990 [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 12 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 13 | Again , tiger teeth found in Bornean caves are believed to have been placed there by man and not to indicate the former presence of the animal on that island . |
| 14 | Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March . |
| 15 | In the north , while in Aragon the CNT militia pushed forward from Barcelona in an attempt to recapture the former anarchist stronghold of Zaragoza , elsewhere the rebels seized the initiative . |
| 16 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 17 | ‘ I am hoping to tie up a television documentary which will enable me to visit the former soviet Union . |
| 18 | They will be able to weigh up the advantages of breaking a law and not doing so ; and they will tend to choose the former path if it seems likely to secure economic and career advancement . |
| 19 | was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules . |
| 20 | Forest have had a £175,000 offer rejected by the Fourth Division club who are unwilling to sell the former Kettering player while still in the FA Cup . |
| 21 | The traditional association of the Democrats with minority interests was seen by many Republicans as an issue which would continue to erode the former party 's support in the South , a crucial common factor in the Democratic candidate 's defeat in five of the six presidential elections since 1968 . |
| 22 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 23 | Provisional bookings have already been made for entertainers like Freddie Starr , Bob Monkhouse and Tammy Wynette to play the former Beehive Ballroom in McMullen Road . |
| 24 | The terms open and closed are very similar to infinite and finite , but , as the equivalence is not quite complete , it is best to use the former pairs of words when discussing linguistic sets . |
| 25 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 26 | A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back . |
| 27 | He captured Isaac 's wife and daughter , and having promised not to put the former ruler in irons , had silver chains made for him . |
| 28 | Only they were , for some reason , too ‘ shy ’ to put the former owner 's name on the labels ! |
| 29 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 30 | Having failed to lure the former coach Chalky White away from the Rugby Football Union , the Tigers are to advertise the post with a salary of around £20,000 , plus a pension and car . |