Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is dysfunctional is expenditure in the form of social expenses on system maintenance , either through legitimation or coercion , although discussion has emphasized the former . |
| 2 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 3 | Historically the balance between the " acute " and " Cinderella " services has favoured the former . |
| 4 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 5 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 6 | Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation . |
| 7 | London-based developers Inner City Enterprises spearheaded the £4m project which has transformed the former listed Georgian terrace into Liverpool 's latest prestigious business address . |
| 8 | BLUE Circle Properties , the property management subsidiary of Blue Circle Industries , has sold the former headquarters of Birmid Qualcast to the West Midlands Fire Service for £1.75m . |
| 9 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 10 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 11 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 12 | ( c ) Extra-statutory concession D6 This concession happily can exempt the whole gain resulting from the disposal from a charge to capital gains tax even if the conveyance or transfer to the wife takes place 36 months after the husband has left the former matrimonial home . |
| 13 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 14 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |
| 15 | Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence . |
| 16 | A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate . |
| 17 | The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council . |
| 18 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 19 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 20 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 21 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 22 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 23 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |
| 24 | However , after the couple had bought the former episcopal rectory in Greenlaw Drive , Paisley , Mr Clark , 45 , was unable to get a transfer north . |
| 25 | His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church . |
| 26 | ‘ I like to think I 've achieved the former , but I ca n't get promotion in five months . ’ |
| 27 | Considerable speculation exists as to the possible location of a new permanent site for the Modern Collection and suggestions so far have included the former Battersea and Bankside power stations on the south bank of the Thames and Canary Wharf in Docklands . |
| 28 | We have seen the former being raided by Eadric Streona in 1012 and fighting for Edmund Ironside in 1016 , while the latter are said to have attacked Durham in 1006 , and by Æthelred 's death King Malcolm II was planning a further incursion . |
| 29 | I have had the former fitted up with Drawers for birds and books in hope to work going along and taking a quantity of birds with me as well as left over plates to cut up for box books etc . |
| 30 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |