Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] former " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 2 | Most of this amount was in fact credits hitherto allocated to the former Soviet Union which had now been unblocked . |
| 3 | Then , at Queenstown , South Island 's most popular tourist town , you might be lucky enough to run across a former world-class exponent of the ski-slopes , Murray ‘ Mo ’ Gardner . |
| 4 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 5 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 6 | He 's a natural ball player with an exciting turn of pace , and Ballymena will gladly benefit from the former Coleraine Institution star , whose now preferred position is in the centre . |
| 7 | It was silent with regard to Soviet Moldavia ( which largely consisted of the former Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and North Bukovina annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , but stipulated respect for existing borders [ see also p. 38306 ] . |
| 8 | This team was largely drawn from the former municipal tramways and included G. V. Stanley and L. Marriott from Croydon Corporation . |
| 9 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 10 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
| 11 | In Habermas 's account , ‘ work ’ and ‘ interaction ’ are relatively separate processes with the latter not reduced to the former . |
| 12 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |
| 13 | In these respects Frith/Moll is represented in the tradition of the warrior woman and the folk figure of Long Meg of Westminster , both of whom distinguish true morality from false , the proper man from the braggart , and finally submit to the former ( Shepherd , Amazons , esp . |
| 14 | The cases of the neighbouring landowner and the competitor mentioned above fall into the former category . |
| 15 | France , whose relations with China were already strained after the former 's strong criticism of the Tiananmen Square repression , defended the deal on the grounds that the vessels would be sold without armaments . |
| 16 | This means that there will be brain systems present in both rats and humans that can be just as easily studied in the former as in the latter . |
| 17 | Having congratulated Cabinet members on their return , Major yesterday baffled the gathering by noting that the new Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , lived in a house that was once occupied by the former Kent cricketer Alfred Mynn . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future . |
| 19 | Tonight the man who 's been leading the fight for pensioners in Oxford said there was also much at state for those still working for the former Maxwell companies . |
| 20 | Malcolm Toon , a special US envoy inquiring into US prisoners of war still held in the former Soviet Union , was quoted on July 1 as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate the claims made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in June [ see p. 38986 ] . |
| 21 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 22 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 23 | His gingery short cropped hair decidedly came from the former . |
| 24 | I also heard of a former Scottish internationalist who felt obliged to leave the ground 15 minutes before the end concerned that he might otherwise lose his temper and respond to provocation . |
| 25 | After that , however , Jacobs was clearly outpointed by the former world champion James McGirt in New York . |
| 26 | A judicial investigation had opened on July 7 , 1989 , into the possible involvement of Blecha , Gratz and a former Federal Chancellor , Alfred ( Fred ) Sinowatz , and the court dealing with the affair began preliminary inquiries in September into the role played by the SPÖ Finance Minister , Ferdinand Lacina ( Minister for Transport and State Industries at the time ) ; similar inquiries were also initiated into the former Defence Minister , Friedhelm Frischenschläger ( FPÖ ) , and a former Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Minister , Erwin Lanc ( SPÖ ) . |
| 27 | With just 3,839 points , however , the odds are now stacked against the former Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier reaching 7,850 points , the qualifying score the winner must achieve to claim an automatic place in Britain 's Olympic team . |
| 28 | What had hitherto been regional versions of folk and country music now joined with the former ‘ racist ’ music of the coloured population , creating through cross-fertilisation modern , i.e. ‘ pop ’ , music . |
| 29 | Then the EC and UN tried jointly , represented , respectively , by another Briton , Lord Owen , an ex-politician , and by America 's Cyrus Vance ( now replaced by a former Norwegian foreign minister , Thorvald Stoltenberg ) . |
| 30 | The observed differences are local and mainly restricted to the former metal sites and their environment . |