Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] 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 | In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 8 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |
| 11 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |