Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Davies injury occurred as the former U S and British Open champion was diving for a catch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Billy Turner came from a former Palace Manager , Jack Tresadern . |
| 5 | Although space is at a premium in NOTTINGHAM GRADUATE , we like to find a corner for those who studied at the former University College . |
| 6 | He tried other doors : one opened into a former barn , now a workshop . |
| 7 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
| 8 | If the exotic is what you seek , you might try Omar Khayyam from India , made from Ugni Blanc , Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay , grown at a high altitude in the Sahyadri mountains near Bombay , and vinified by a former winemaker of Piper Heidsieck . |
| 9 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 10 | Wearing a flak jacket beneath his dark green anorak , Mr Major flew into the former Yugoslavia amid strict secrecy and high security . |
| 11 | Wearing a flak jacket beneath his dark green anorak , Mr Major flew into the former Yugoslavia amid strict secrecy and high security . |
| 12 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 13 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 14 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 15 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 16 | fell into the former category and 25 per cent . |
| 17 | And Marigot Bay undoubtedly fell into the former category , she reflected , sipping more orange juice and letting the zingy citrus sweetness slither cold and reviving down her throat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was educated at St Malachy 's College in Belfast and went to the former Polytechnic at Jordanstown . |
| 20 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 21 | A crowd estimated at several thousands gathered outside the former embassy chanting " Death to America " . |
| 22 | The renovated statue carried the Prussian Iron Cross and the Prussian Eagle , added in 1814 but removed by the former East German authorities in the 1950s . |
| 23 | From that assessment , a group to be known as the Trailblazers will be formed and will come under the guidance of the Cliff Richard Development Trust , which is already supporting some 11 youngsters who previously progressed from the former Search for a start scheme . |
| 24 | The anti-smoking campaigner — who played JR — wrote to the former premier to say many Americans were dismayed that she might become a consultant . |
| 25 | He said he wrote to the former Beatle about the problem but had not had a reply . |
| 26 | The peacekeeping forces of the ECOWAS monitoring group ECOMOG moved onto the offensive on Oct. 1 with the aim of creating a buffer zone between the three warring factions in the capital — namely Charles Taylor 's rebel NPFL , what remained of the former government forces now commanded by Brig. -Gen . |
| 27 | Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the generosity he bestowed on the former Leader of the House , the right hon. Member for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , who moved the guillotine motion on the original poll tax measure applying to Scotland ? |
| 28 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 29 | The arguments propounded by the former group vary . |