Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the company in question must be formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 or under the former Companies Acts … |
| 2 | Hence , the United States might be described as being oriented toward a mix of the empirical and the rationalist , albeit with the former being clearly the more dominant of the two . |
| 3 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 4 | An observer would follow the same procedure in judging the traveller 's choice right or wrong and in predicting that choice , except that in the former case the question is how the traveller would react in fullest awareness , in the latter how he will react in his actual awareness . |
| 5 | Italy and the USA constitute rogue cases in the sense that in the former case there was political interest in change , while in the latter case there was an extraordinary mass interest in psychiatry . |
| 6 | The difference is that in the former case it is the teachers and support staff who use the systems , while in the latter it is the learners . |
| 7 | It is submitted that in the former case the approach would probably be modified by the basic duty of fidelity to the extent that confidentiality would be lost only if the employer could be said to have shown wilful disregard to the quality of the confidence , rather than having been merely negligent . |
| 8 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 9 | It is that in the former situation it will be possible to adduce evidence as to established professional practice with which the defendant 's actions can be compared , whereas in business , while it may be clear what steps should be taken before a decision is made , it is not obvious by what criteria the decision itself should be judged . |
| 10 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
| 11 | Soon a scrum developed which bore a greater resemblance to that other American game than to the former game of Redcoat rounders being played below , and Denis had to pile in beside his uncle to the great detriment of his new coat and the loss of one trilby . |
| 12 | He was also the company 's standard bearer at the town 's annual common riding and as a former Master upholsterer he previously represented the Corporation of Hammermen in a similar capacity . |
| 13 | As an ‘ old China hand ’ , Mr Bush apparently prides himself on his personal understanding in dealing with the Chinese ; and as a former CIA director , he is not averse to secrecy . |
| 14 | ( and about a former life ) . |
| 15 | The Ministers of Defence of the NATO countries and of the former member States of the Warsaw Pact , including most of the republics of the former Soviet Union , met in Brussels on April 1 and agreed on a wide-ranging programme of co-operation on military and security matters . |
| 16 | The salt sensitivity of P A2b was assayed in linear and supercoiled templates , and in the former case , both in the absence and presence of the initiating NTPs ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 17 | Thus megalomania in individual madness is usually a much more permanent state than the mania of manic-depression ; and in the former case there is no doubt that the ego has undergone a vast elevation in its own estimation . |
| 18 | What positive action will be taken to assist people in eastern Europe and in the former states of the Soviet Union ? |
| 19 | In 1983 , the Conservatives lost their last remaining seats in Glasgow and Liverpool , and Labour 's loss of all but three seats in the South ( other than in London ) left it in control of large contiguous areas only at the core of individual conurbations , and in the former coal field areas of Strathclyde , the north east of England , South Yorkshire and South Wales . |
| 20 | Several towns have male unemployment of more than 20 per cent and in the former coal and steel areas of Cumnock , Strathclyde , and Sanquhar , Dumfries and Galloway , male unemployment by one calculation is 35 per cent . |
| 21 | If every inhabitant was now to become a citizen and without the former property qualification , empire provided a vicarious property qualification for the Master Race . |
| 22 | But in a former gunnery hall on the extreme southerly edge of South End camp , Friends of the SAAF Museum have established a foothold which looks set to prosper . |
| 23 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 24 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 25 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 26 | In the latter case one is confronted by something like a functioning assembly which needs to be dismantled and analysed before it can be understood , whereas in the former case one has something much more like an ‘ exploded ’ view of things as seen in a working drawing . |
| 27 | In Yorkshire the houses of the period tend to be of stone rubble while in the former Wiltshire downlands they are more often than not made of cob , a mixture of chalk , straw and manure , or of flint rubble . |
| 28 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 29 | Here the smaller aperture and higher magnification means that the images are not so bright as in the former pairs , and the field is smaller still . |
| 30 | The latter — as in the former works — are shaped according to the job they had to do , i.e. rectangular ( not cubic ) tesserae depict the moustache as it falls either side of the mouth . |