Example sentences of "from the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the Ulster Special Constabulary , invented to supplement the main police force , was derived largely from the former Ulster Volunteer Force . |
| 2 | Villagers from the former location soon reached him and carried him shoulder-high in a triumphal procession . |
| 3 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 4 | Following on from the former Premier Zhou Enlai , Deng began an ambitious programme of economic reforms . |
| 5 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 6 | Imports of vegetables from the former COMECON ( Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ) countries had fallen , and fruit imports from Cuba had been reduced by 75 per cent . |
| 7 | Even so , one of Britain 's foremost authorities on trees , Dr Oliver Rackham , warned in the Guardian in February 1990 : ‘ This time there will be no excuse or failing to learn from the former storm . |
| 8 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 9 | For the first time , items from the former East Germany accounted for a large proportion of the lots on offer . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Soviet forces were to be withdrawn from the former East German territory by the end of 1994 and governed by a separate bilateral treaty [ see below ] . |
| 11 | On Jan. 30 the government also announced that it was sending to Israel eight launchers for Patriot missiles ( equipped to deter aircraft rather than Scud missiles ) , eight " sniffer " vehicles for chemical warfare detection , 50 similar vehicles from the former East German army and a commitment to provide two submarines subject to approval by the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 12 | In Egypt he added DM150 million to the DM1,000 million already promised to help cover Egypt 's costs in the war , and pledged a dozen armoured gas detection vehicles from the former East German arsenal . |
| 13 | ‘ The Theft Act 1968 makes a welcome departure from the former style of drafting in criminal statutes . |
| 14 | Apart from the former mill owner 's house , there are only a few other remnants , such as the remains of a mill pond , sluices and the reservoir . |
| 15 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 16 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 17 | In fact , the greatest body even of these , the urban domestic servants , did not enjoy the security of the favoured family retainers of the traditional nobility and gentry , but constantly faced insecurity in its most terrible form : instant dismissal ‘ without a character ’ , i.e. a recommendation to future employers from the former master , or more likely mistress . |
| 18 | He also won the Bangor Open singles this season , and deserves a lot of respect from the former champion . |
| 19 | Print and broadcast journalists from the former state of Yugoslavia , whatever their ethnic background , are in fear for their lives . |
| 20 | The position was that the plaintiffs effectively retained possession of the surgery premises and the defendant er moved out of the premises and er went and found other surgery premises and er the position as I understand it is that he is carrying on his own practice today from other premises , the plaintiffs are such as now surviving , are still continue to practice from the former part of the premises . |
| 21 | Defections from the former ruling Janata Dal ( JD ) to form the JD(S) had brought down the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 , and led to the appointment of the JD(S) leader Chandra Shekhar as Prime Minister heading a minority government [ see pp. 37854-55 ] . |
| 22 | For most work completed prior to 1989 construction was carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council with financial support from the former Manpower Services Commission . |
| 23 | A writer in the 1880s described it as " this old refuge of creatures from the former régimes " . |
| 24 | The scene is laid first in the Leewood Arms , a pub with a garden in an unspecified part of W.11 in London , and later in Pete and Ellie 's flat one block away from the former pad of the Leewood Road ( Demolition Protest ) Commune . |
| 25 | Also words from the former England cricket captain Graham Gooch , Nottinghamshire 's Jimmy Smith on basketball and of course the globe trotting and well tanned Martin Fisher from five past seven G M T. |
| 26 | MacGregor has the advantage of breadth of experience in Government , especially as Chief Secretary to the Treasury , a post that won him praise from the former Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , whatever that is worth these days . |
| 27 | For a start , 80% of its staff come from the former graphics system builder , which was itself born of a marriage made in hell between bitter rivals Ardent Computer Inc and Stellar Computer Corp back in 1989 . |
| 28 | Those in France are similarly supplied by what amounts to a new invasion of the Moors — the vast influx from the former North African colonies . |
| 29 | Products from the former colonies of EC member states , they pointed out , were covered under the Lomé Convention , and similar measures had recently been agreed for the Andean Pact countries . |
| 30 | In most cases , however , a transfer of property from the former husband to the former wife will fall within the provisions of s10(1) mentioned above and the Inland Revenue have issued a Press Statement ( see Orange Tax Handbook 1992/93 , Butterworths , IHT Statements of Practice , E12 ) to this effect : Transfer of money or property pursuant to an Order of the Court in consequence of a Decree of Divorce or nullity of marriage will in general be regarded as exempt from Inheritance Tax as transactions at arm 's length which are not intended to confer any gratuitous benefit . |