Example sentences of "be [prep] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 2 | The most dramatic increase has been in the former Soviet Union , where the area of land under forest rose by 70 million hectares — three times the size of Britain — over the past 25 years . |
| 3 | Most of the items to go on display were from the former WAAG collection , but a lot of money ( courtesy of a bank and the founders using their homes as collateral ! ) secured the former London Air Museum collection and this enabled a wide spread of exhibits to greet the public when TMAM opened-up in June 1982 . |
| 4 | ( In the event , 15% of ET trainees in its first year of operation were from the former group , and 33% from the latter . ) |
| 5 | ( see p96 ) If the trust is of the former matrimonial home alone , there will be no available cash out of which fees can be paid . |
| 6 | In this book our main , although by no means exclusive , concern is with the former . |
| 7 | The secret of a good arch is in the former , around which the bricks are laid . |
| 8 | Thus it is in the former that the manufacturer has the greater strategic motive for vertical separation , setting wholesale prices and charging franchise fees . |
| 9 | But in spite of Tess 's decision to forget her ancestors , the dairy , called Talbothays , especially attracted her because it was near the former lands of the old d'Urberville family . |
| 10 | It was in the former role that , with the governor and two other directors , he attended the queen on 15 June 1710 to desire on the bank 's behalf that she make no further ministerial changes following the replacement of Charles Spencer , third Earl of Sunderland , by William Legge , first Earl of Dartmouth [ qq.v . ] . |
| 11 | It was to the former that he believed himself to be responding . |