Example sentences of "under the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Mates , aged 57 , was appointed as one of the two ministers of state for Northern Ireland under the former Attorney General , Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 2 | Cynics have noted that the Northern Ireland team under the former attorney general , Sir Patrick Mayhew , is well-placed to forge friendly relations with the Ulster Unionists , should by-elections nibble away at the government 's majority . |
| 3 | While rules made under the former sections would alter common law rights , the absence of a clear authority in the latter might mean that rules made under it do not . |
| 4 | ’ The section defines an ‘ existing company ’ as meaning a company formed and registered under the former Companies Acts . |
| 5 | This means that the company in question must be formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 or under the former Companies Acts … |
| 6 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro signed three decrees and a presidential agreement on property rights on Sept. 9 in an attempt to defuse the most contentious issue facing her government — the estimated 4,600 claims for redress from owners of property and land expropriated under the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) regime between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 7 | ‘ Simon the Canaanite ’ thus becomes one and the same as ‘ Simon Zelotes ’ or ‘ Simon the Zealot ’ , appearing in Matthew and Mark under the former designation and in Luke and in Acts under the latter . |
| 8 | In addition , it should be observed that although the Act of 1988 entered into force on 1 December 1988 , the validity of registrations effected under the former system was extended by section 13 until 31 March 1989 , and hence owners and operators who might not have fulfilled that requirement in the past were given a reasonable transitional period in which to comply therewith . |
| 9 | Given NAB 's acceptance of the new base of the 1986–87 numbers as achieved under the former system from 1987–88 , a ‘ subject weight ’ system is now in place . |
| 10 | It would comprise 16 parliamentary deputies and 11 private citizens and would be headed by Rainer Eppelmann , a leading peace campaigner and dissident under the former East German regime . |
| 11 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 12 | Given the new licensing laws for teachers I shall give them some experience of the post 16+ area before embarking on the lower school work with which under the former arrangement I would normally have begun . |
| 13 | Under the former practice ( see s14 of the Solicitors Act as originally enacted ) , certificates were issued by the Law Society during the months of November and December of each year and backdated to 1 November . |
| 14 | Thus , in his discussion of Modernism relative to Lukács and Brecht : ‘ to highlight the fact that Modernism shares with Romanticism a ‘ subjectified occasionalism , is not thereby to pass a negative aesthetic judgement on the works of art grouped together under the former label . |