Example sentences of "from the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the Ulster Special Constabulary , invented to supplement the main police force , was derived largely from the former Ulster Volunteer Force . |
| 2 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 4 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 5 | The steel unions are in no doubt that political pressure from the former Scottish Secretary , Mr George Younger , saved the plant , one of the Corporation 's big five complexes , from closure in 1982 . |
| 6 | The present constituency , redrawn in 1983 from the former Labour seat of Lichfield and Tamworth which Mr Heddle won in 1979 , showed a strong swing toward Labour in the May council elections . |
| 7 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 8 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 9 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 10 | An England representative team came second in the strongest open tournament of the year in Berne , Switzerland , to break the familiar stranglehold on the top prizes by players from the former Soviet Union . |
| 11 | It 's a little rich coming from the former sultan of sleaze . |
| 12 | Bouldery morainic drift is also extensive in the valleys radiating from the former centres of ice accumulation in the Harris mountains . |
| 13 | Apart from the former mill owner 's house , there are only a few other remnants , such as the remains of a mill pond , sluices and the reservoir . |
| 14 | The ‘ Beautiful Damsel ’ ( Agrion virgo ) favours clear , gravel-bottomed streams , while the ‘ Banded Damsel ’ ( Agrion splendens ) , distinguished from the former by the blue-black bar on the male 's wing , is abundant on muddy-bottomed , less acid waters . |
| 15 | It was even better when I got a hug and a kiss from the former Miss Minnesota ! |
| 16 | His gingery short cropped hair decidedly came from the former . |
| 17 | The link between his emerging depression and his violent behaviour , the latter defending him from the former , made sense to him . |
| 18 | Villagers from the former location soon reached him and carried him shoulder-high in a triumphal procession . |
| 19 | Those in France are similarly supplied by what amounts to a new invasion of the Moors — the vast influx from the former North African colonies . |
| 20 | The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies . |
| 21 | To reach it you simply steer 090 ° from Wellington , or 070 ° from Christchurch ; the snag is that Chatham is 413 nm from the former and 475 nm from the latter , rather farther than I was prepared to fly single-engined across the waters of the South Pacific . |
| 22 | At this biological level the evidence is unequivocal ; there are drives both to preserve self and to sacrifice self for others , and the latter can not be derived from the former . |
| 23 | Monica Seles , the only person from the former Yugoslavia whose name does n't evoke instant sympathy , was reduced to blessed silence when losing to Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon ladies ' final . |
| 24 | This team was largely drawn from the former municipal tramways and included G. V. Stanley and L. Marriott from Croydon Corporation . |
| 25 | For this reason , working with people from the former communist regimes of eastern Europe can be difficult because the common language and culture of business life are missing : ‘ The concept of profit is not there . |
| 26 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 27 | Dating back to the 18th Century the main house has been converted from the former guest quarters . |
| 28 | Following on from the former Premier Zhou Enlai , Deng began an ambitious programme of economic reforms . |
| 29 | Most of the items to go on display were from the former WAAG collection , but a lot of money ( courtesy of a bank and the founders using their homes as collateral ! ) secured the former London Air Museum collection and this enabled a wide spread of exhibits to greet the public when TMAM opened-up in June 1982 . |
| 30 | Even when Clapton stole Harrison 's wife , Patti Boyd , from the former Beatle , the two guitarists remained friendly . |