Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 2 | The mass graves of about 12,500 people who died from 1945 to 1950 in a Soviet prison camp located at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp were discovered near the site in September . |
| 3 | Arlott 's son Tim read two poems written by his father , and the congregation sang God Whose Farm is All Creation , a hymn written by the former broadcaster . |
| 4 | Any such conflicting treaty would be absolutely and automatically void , and the signatory States to the former treaty could invoke that invalidity at any time . |
| 5 | The Constituent Assembly 's decision was based on recommendations emanating from a political pact signed by Gaviria with leaders of his Ruling Liberal Party ( PL ) and the two parties jointly outnumbering the PL in the Assembly , namely the M-19 Democratic Alliance ( a left-wing coalition led by the former guerrilla group 19 April Movement ( M-19 ) ) and the conservative Movement of National Salvation ( MSN ) . |
| 6 | The M-19 Democratic Alliance , a left-wing coalition led by the former guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , had also opposed the law . |
| 7 | Brackenbury will fill the gap left by the former advertising and sales promotion manager Roger Craythorne , who took early retirement last month ( MW November 15 ) as part of a sweeping programme of marketing changes . |
| 8 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 9 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 10 | The new Archbishop Rivera y Damas remains outspoken on human rights violations and continues much of the legal work sponsored by the former Archbishop . |
| 11 | On the twenty fifth of May , nineteen eighty one , the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum located in the former control tower , which is er now completely renovated , was dedicated by Major Horace United States Air Force , retired . |
| 12 | The approach to needs assessment used in the former RSG has been described as ‘ a brilliant device provided one does not inquire too closely into what it means ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 13 | The electoral campaign , which had begun on Dec. 4 , ended on Feb. 21 , and was attended by an estimated 2,500 international observers including representatives of the United Nations , the Organization of American States and the European Parliament and a United States team led by the former President , Jimmy Carter . |
| 14 | The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests , including Suchinda . |
| 15 | The occasion was the launch of the Glasgow Central profit plan by branch manager , George Houston at the service meeting held at the former home of the Maxwell family [ not Robert 's relations ] at Pollock House . |
| 16 | Also in this category , however , is a group of establishments formed from the amalgamation of a college of education with one or more further education colleges , for example the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education consisting of the former Cartrefle College of Education , Wrexham ; Wrexham College of Technology ; and Kelsterton College of Technology , Connah 's Quay , Flintshire . |
| 17 | A capacity turn-out of 55 local coaches attended a classroom clinic last night given by the former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll , the only man to win four Super Bowls . |
| 18 | Photographs of the collection hanging in the former Kronprinzen-Palais ( destroyed in the war ) show paintings by Franz Marc , Kirchner , Schlemmer , Beckmann , Feininger , Nolde , Klee , Kandinsky , Corinth and Grosz among others , and sculpture by Kolbe , Belling , Lehmbruck , and Barlach . |
| 19 | The human creature develops in the former aspect , in the main , at puberty . |
| 20 | Visit this major exhibition located in the former service rooms of the castle 's great hall . |
| 21 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 22 | Property owned by the former Somoza dictatorship and its private army , the National Guard , would not be returned , although even here , any anomalies would be examined . |
| 23 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 24 | It also includes a piece of ‘ cynghanedd ’ Welsh verse written by the former Mayor of Ruthin , Robin Llwyd ap Owain , a National Eisteddfod winner in 1991 . |
| 25 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 26 | In Palermo , Sicily , an absolute majority was won by the DC list headed by the former mayor Leoluca Orlando ( representing the left-oriented faction of the DC ) , who until his resignation in February had for the previous 2@1/2 years headed an " anti-Mafia " coalition of the DC and the PCI . |
| 27 | Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) . |
| 28 | The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics . |
| 29 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro signed three decrees and a presidential agreement on property rights on Sept. 9 in an attempt to defuse the most contentious issue facing her government — the estimated 4,600 claims for redress from owners of property and land expropriated under the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) regime between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 30 | He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency . |