Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] the former [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation .
2 Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment .
3 The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council .
4 But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse .
5 The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa .
6 His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church .
7 ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story .
8 At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten .
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