Example sentences of "[verb] that the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also object on the grounds that , while Sotheby 's disclaims any ownership interest in the treasure and was merely the agent for Lord Northampton , they are by no means convinced that this is the case , especially as it has come to light during the discovery process that the former chairman of Sotheby 's , the late Peter Wilson , played the leading role in the treasure 's acquisition and had a share in its value , inherited by his sons , Thomas and Philip . |
| 2 | Yesterday the Perth Daily News also claimed that the former executive who organised the alleged tapping approached the CIA in an attempt to discredit Lonrho , one of Mr Bond 's most vociferous critics . |
| 3 | Marshal Terauchi , Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Region , dismissed this claim ( 17 July ) though he agreed that the former Netherlands Indies would be given Japanese-style independence . |
| 4 | On May 22 the Berlin Justice Senator announced that the former State Security Minister , Erich Mielke , 83 , had been charged with incitement to murder in connection with the " shoot-to-kill " policy . |
| 5 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 6 | It should be possible , however , to outline paradigms for community education and development which will ensure that the former outcome is achieved every time . |
| 7 | IBM says that the former employees held key managerial and technical positions in the thin-film development department at its San Jose plant in California . |
| 8 | The effectiveness of Steyn in such a role was questioned by several observers who noted that the former fighter pilot and close colleague of the President had no intelligence experience . |
| 9 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 10 | The only people not happy are the neighbours , who complain that the former occupants made less noise . |
| 11 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 12 | A jury 's been told that the former manager and chairman of Swindon Town cheated the taxman in an effort to improve the club 's playing staff . |
| 13 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 14 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |
| 15 | Of course the sceptics and the doubters will sneer at the influence on the affair exercised by Dicky saying that the former route was unsuitable and geographically unstable , and they will point out that such conditions have been overcome in other parts , for example , the West Highland , the Liverpool and Manchester and the Settle and Carlisle , but then those conversant with Dicky o' Tunstead will continue to believe that it is his malign influence which kept the rails away from Tunstead Farm . |
| 16 | The same Act permits marriages between in-laws , subject to the same provisos , and also provided that the former spouses have died . |
| 17 | ( Note that the former set need not actually display Ramsey pricing , though Baumol et al. |
| 18 | But if the rule was reformed , this would not indicate that the former rule was unreasonable . |
| 19 | But if the rule was reformed , this would not indicate that the former rule was unreasonable . |
| 20 | Further , the inequality in child survival probabilities ( by level of mother 's education ) has been found to be greater in urban than in rural places and small towns , indicating that the former offers better educated , knowledgeable mothers means of compensating for child health hazards that are unavailable to uneducated , poorly informed women . |
| 21 | Thus the Vatican Declaration can freely admit that the former reasons for not ordaining women are now discredited , while at the same time pointing to the constancy of the tradition . |
| 22 | A judicial commission which on Sept. 26 began a fresh inquiry into the air crash which killed President Gen. Zia ul-Haq in August 1988 [ see pp. 36217 ] heard evidence alleging that the former army Chief of Staff Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg had plotted the crash [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 23 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 24 | The judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that the former guard captain , Karl-Heinz Becker , 49 , had intended to kill when he fired his pistol at one of the two men fleeing through a checkpoint on 8 April , 1989 . |
| 25 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |
| 26 | Ferrasse , rightly , explained that the former coach has already been punished for his misdemeanour , and he then threatened to resign from the Board unless the Dubroca issue was allowed to rest . |
| 27 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 28 | When looking at the changes in this offer probabilities over the assumed two period , notice that the former probability is a function of all variables , not just demand , that may affect the individual 's search intensity . |