Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 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 | was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 11 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 12 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 13 | Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young announced that plans to develop the former Herculaneum Dock in south Liverpool will get government backing . |
| 14 | Last night some Conservatives argued that government whips should demand that Mr Heseltine urge retreat on Sir Anthony , who has said he would like to see the former Defence Secretary and ardent pro-European lead the party . |
| 15 | Prior to the ceremony the railway 's guests were entertained to lunch at the Raven Inn where W & L chairman Ken Fenton told the guests of the station 's history and paid tribute to the people and organisations who had helped bring the former Eardisley station building up from its former site . |
| 16 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 17 | County councillors have agreed to make the former Stockton and Darlington Railway into a public bridleway between Haughton Road and McMullen Road , Darlington . |
| 18 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |
| 19 | John Parsons in Nice is saddened to see the former world No 1 humbled in another comeback attempt at the age of 35 |
| 20 | Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence . |
| 21 | An education report that appears to support the former theory is a pussyfooting piece of dangerous nonsense , says John Rae . ’ |
| 22 | A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration . |
| 25 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 26 | They will be able to weigh up the advantages of breaking a law and not doing so ; and they will tend to choose the former path if it seems likely to secure economic and career advancement . |
| 27 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 28 | Naturally the coach roads were the worst affected , while off the beaten track Green and no doubt others , continued to enjoy the former hospitality and generosity . |
| 29 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 30 | 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 . |