Example sentences of "to the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 2 | To mitigate this problem , the transferor company may have to be re-financed before the hive-down , for example by the elimination of intra-group indebtedness , followed by the purchase of Target shares at a nominal value , coupled with the re-financing of Target and the repayment of the loan due to the former parent company . |
| 3 | Although discussions took place about a possible return to the former scale of activity , Newlove 's health did not improve and he was physically limited to Wells where either One-Year or Terminal courses continued until 1934 when the WEA branch became inactive . |
| 4 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 5 | And his appointment to the position four years ago has certainly opened a whole new world to the former Tees and Hartlepool port authority chief executive . |
| 6 | Mr Forman served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , but has gained a reputation as a critic of Mrs Thatcher 's style of government . |
| 7 | The University commissioned a new piece of music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew for the first of these concerts , which not only gave a young composer her first opportunity to write for a full orchestra but also provided an affectionate tribute to the former Chancellor 's memory . |
| 8 | New to Test cricket were Victorians Wayne Phillips , an opener and no relation to the former Test wicketkeeper/batsman , and fast-medium bowler Paul Reiffel . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Ghulam Abbas Chandio , an adviser to the former PPP chief minister of Sind , was arrested on April 25 on charges of being " closely associated " with the hijacking of a Singapore Airlines Airbus in March [ see p. 38103 ] . |
| 10 | In the mid Sixties , Ludwig began making large-scale , long-term loans to the former Wallraf-Richartz Museum ( which , since 1989 , has housed the Museum of Applied Arts ) . |
| 11 | The ultimate answer used to be a move to the former East Germany , where some would-be subscribers had reportedly been waiting 23 years to have a telephone installed . |
| 12 | As regards the smaller parties , only the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the former East German ruling Socialist Unity Party ) and the Alliance 90/Greens gained representation . |
| 13 | At a congress in Berlin on Jan. 27 Gregor Gysi was re-elected chair of the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the former East German ruling SED ) . |
| 14 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 15 | The sale of weapons belonging to the former East Germany to Finland and Uruguay was confirmed by a German Defence Ministry spokesman on Jan. 3 . |
| 16 | The Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the former East German Socialist Unity Party — SED ) won 11.3 per cent overall ( but came second with 29.7 per cent in the east ) . |
| 17 | The decision was ‘ fully open ’ to the former home secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , in the exercise of his judgment and was not open to review by the courts , said Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , sitting with Lords Justice Ralph Gibson and McCowan . |
| 18 | All told , 10 backbenchers were brought into the Government , including Mr Alistair Burt ( Bury North ) who becomes junior minister at Social Security ; Mr Steve Norris ( Epping Forest ) , Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Home Secretary , Mr Kenneth Baker , becomes Under-Secretary at the Transport Department ; and Mr Gwylim Jones ( Cardiff North ) becomes Welsh Under-Secretary . |
| 19 | All ten research reactors at Moscow 's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy are unsafe , according to the former head of the city 's research reactor inspectorate , Vladimir Kuznetsov . |
| 20 | That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world . |
| 21 | Some support , however , is given to the former possibility by the fact that an equally well-defined Roman road also runs along the ridge , providing another possible line for the boundary ‘ surveyors ’ to use . |
| 22 | On 11 July Sukarno told the Committee : ‘ At no time … have I declared that my struggle was confined to the claim to the former Dutch held territory . |
| 23 | The payments to the former directors were later stopped . |
| 24 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 25 | All his really popular works belong to the former category , with its strongly Impressionist tint . |
| 26 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 27 | The anti-smoking campaigner — who played JR — wrote to the former premier to say many Americans were dismayed that she might become a consultant . |
| 28 | But the devolopers face an uphill struggle ; no thanks to the former prisoners . |
| 29 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |
| 30 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |