Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the north , while in Aragon the CNT militia pushed forward from Barcelona in an attempt to recapture the former anarchist stronghold of Zaragoza , elsewhere the rebels seized the initiative . |
| 2 | A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back . |
| 3 | On Sept. 16 delegates elected former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy as president to succeed the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt whose absence due to illness ( hw died on Oct. 9 ) had overshadowed the proceedings . |
| 4 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
| 5 | THE FIRST step of a plan to transform the former Ravenscraig steel complex in Lanarkshire was taken yesterday . |
| 6 | They also authorised FERL to approach the former East German authorities of Thüringen , now one of the new ‘ Länder ’ ( regions ) in Germany , to ask them to include provision for community radios in their legislation . |
| 7 | GERMANY 'S central bank policy makers are expected to consider lowering interest rates this week following political agreement at the weekend on a financial package to revitalise the former East Germany . |
| 8 | The rights issue proceeds will be injected into the ICI rump to allow the former parent to pay down debt . |
| 9 | On Dec. 3 , 1991 , the Supreme Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to bring the former President and senator for life , Alan García Pérez , to trial on charges of illegal enrichment during his 1985-90 period in office . |
| 10 | Following one stimulus rather than another with food , for example , is likely to establish associations that will cause the subject to approach the former stimulus rather than the latter when both are available . |
| 11 | Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March . |
| 12 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 13 | Provisional bookings have already been made for entertainers like Freddie Starr , Bob Monkhouse and Tammy Wynette to play the former Beehive Ballroom in McMullen Road . |
| 14 | SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre . |