Example sentences of "[pron] in the former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in the former University Museum , a large neo-classical room , houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes . |
| 2 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 3 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 4 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 5 | In this case D is clearly asking a price for his promise but is he in the former case ? |