Example sentences of "in the former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials maintain that living standards here are higher than elsewhere in the former superpower , but rationing exists for cereals , sugar , butter , flour , petrol and other basic goods . |
| 2 | Visit this major exhibition located in the former service rooms of the castle 's great hall . |
| 3 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 4 | Aged 79 , Major Bourne-Arton lives now as then in the former rectory at West Tanfield , near Ripon . |
| 5 | In the former interpretation , the speaking persona is placed in an imagined situational context which is evoked by the text itself , so that the real and the fictional enunciations are once again rather neatly separated from each other . |
| 6 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 7 | According to a Moscow Radio World Service report on Feb. 25 the Cabinet was to consist of 55 members , compared with 69 members in the former Council of Ministers ( earlier reports had suggested that the Cabinet would include only around 15 ministers , plus the republican heads of government — see p. 37904 ) . |
| 8 | In the former Bilbo acts as the link between modern times and the archaic world of dwarves and dragons . |
| 9 | In the Talbot Rice Gallery , Old College , the University has two galleries : one in the former University Museum , a fine neo-classical room , houses the Torrie Collection of old master paintings and bronzes ; the other is adjacent and is a spacious modern gallery for changing exhibitions and is one of the leading venues for contemporary art in Scotland . |
| 10 | One in the former University Museum , a large neo-classical room , houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes . |
| 11 | Between at least 1520 and 1523 he was with Richard Pynson [ q.v. ] , then king 's printer , in the latter 's printing house beside St Dunstan 's Church in the West , signing prose or verse to the reader , still as Bercula , in Pynson editions of Robert Whittinton 's Vulgaria ( STC 25570 ) and John Constable 's Epigrammata ( STC 5639 ) in the former year and John Fitzherbert 's Boke of surveyeng ( STC 11005 ) in the latter year . |
| 12 | The difference may seem slight , but it could affect interpretation of the event , since the most important assembly of the Gallic provinces , the Council of the Gauls , was re-established in the former year . |
| 13 | In the former country only when electronic documents are printed are they classed as official documents ( Doorn 1993 ) , whereas in the latter country electronic records are considered equivalent to paper records and retained in an accessible form ( Gränström 1993 ) . |
| 14 | Many of the burdensome covenants inserted in the former kind of lease will be wholly inappropriate to the latter . |
| 15 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 16 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as we have shown , there are wide variations in performance between different categories of NSE students , and it seems likely that the universities may pursue more conservative entrance policies with regard to non-traditional students than those pursued in the former polytechnic sector . |
| 18 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 19 | The second paragraph , with its mention of alphabet , answers the question in the former sense , whereas the fifth paragraph , with its liturgical reference to " the quick and the dead " , answers it in the latter . |
| 20 | It seems that a less skilled craftsman was employed in the former work — a craftsman ( or apprentice ) whose contributions are not visible in the Blackfriars mosaic . |
| 21 | Accordingly the associability of A ( and its tendency to evoke the OR ) will be higher in the former case because the differences in reinforcer magnitude that follow the stimulus are particularly marked . |
| 22 | In the former case , it can sometimes be brought within the scope of the rules on payments by way of compensation for loss of office . |
| 23 | In the former case the interviewer may have to find 10 men and 10 women , and these 20 must be composed of 6 under 30 , 7 between 30 and 55 and 7 over 55 . |
| 24 | The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same . |
| 25 | In the former case D18 will be lit and in the latter case it will be extinguished . |
| 26 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 27 | An observer would follow the same procedure in judging the traveller 's choice right or wrong and in predicting that choice , except that in the former case the question is how the traveller would react in fullest awareness , in the latter how he will react in his actual awareness . |
| 28 | Only in the former case , where the plasma is in equilibrium , its particles randomly moving around with a distribution of energies , does the concept of ‘ temperature ’ have a true meaning and the possibility of sustained thermo -nuclear fusion exist . |
| 29 | In the former case provisions of the 1982 Mental Health Act such as guardianship may be more appropriate . |
| 30 | In the former case , one can think ( without it being too misleading ) of each statement of the higher-level program translated into a set of statements of lower-level program , and that is done when the program runs . |