Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Uppal took pleasure in inviting the former Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to Hounslow last year , presenting the borough as a harmonious model of good race relations . |
| 2 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 3 | A significant achievement was persuading an estimated 23,000 former contra rebels to demobilize [ see pp. 37370-71 ; 37450 ] but Chamorro antagonized right-wing parties in the ruling UNO coalition by retaining the former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as the C.-in-C. of a re-formed army [ see pp. 37527 ; 37849-50 ] . |
| 4 | Porterfield has already gone on record by saying the former England coach has easily proved to be his best signing . |
| 5 | The difficulty with restoring the former glories was that many bands had outpriced themselves . |
| 6 | The procedure for placing the former type of advertisement is set out below under ‘ Placing of the Business Opportunity Advertisement by the client ’ . |
| 7 | Route 5 — West Croydon — Crystal Palace to be strengthened to a five-minute service by extending the former Robin Hood and Selby Road short workings through to Croydon . |
| 8 | One of the leading contenders , Mr Eduardo ‘ Danding ’ Conjuanco , added glamour to his campaign this week by persuading the former heart-throb actor Joseph Estrada to postpone his own presidential ambitions and become his running mate . |
| 9 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 10 | Peter Gilchrist , a 21-year old Teessider , retained the British Open championship by beating the former world champion Norman Dagley 1,166-1,008 in the four-hour final in Leeds . |
| 11 | Parys , who had become Poland 's first civilian National Defence Minister on his appointment in the new government of December 1991 , had provoked controversy by forcing the former Defence Minister , Vice-Adml . |
| 12 | The increase was attributed to falling demand for EC agricultural produce , the falling value of the dollar , and the cost of integrating the former East Germany into the common agricultural policy ( CAP ) . |
| 13 | Given Nuremberg 's deeply repressed recent history with its strong Nazi connections , it is perhaps also not surprising that her idea of transforming the former site of the Nuremberg rallies into a peace park should meet with opposition . |