Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the former [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 2 | Visit this major exhibition located in the former service rooms of the castle 's great hall . |
| 3 | The sixth-century papal sacristy used during Lent has been located in the former wine cellar of the convent . |
| 4 | The words contained in the former definition of larceny , in section 1 of the Larceny Act 1916 , ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ have been omitted , and , we have no doubt , deliberately omitted from the definition of theft in the new Act . |
| 5 | Furthermore , as we have shown , there are wide variations in performance between different categories of NSE students , and it seems likely that the universities may pursue more conservative entrance policies with regard to non-traditional students than those pursued in the former polytechnic sector . |
| 6 | That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 10 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 11 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 12 | According to sources , a bankruptcy order had been made against the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee by the solicitors Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens , who had previously acted for him , and the Inland Revenue petition was automatically dismissed . |
| 13 | Those connected with the former State Security or the former Communist Party would no longer be needed , he said . |
| 14 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 15 | But his confession to Merymose had a positive effect too , because permission was granted to the former scribe to talk to the bereaved families within the palace compound . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although the defence had demanded the release of extracts from Reagan 's diaries as a means of circumventing the memory lapses suffered by the former President , Reagan had cited executive privilege in order to resist the move [ see pp. 37240-41 ] . |
| 19 | The ensuing public alarm encouraged the setting up of a national commission ( chaired by the former Secretary of Labour , Willard Wirtz ) to investigate the reasons for such a sharp decline . |
| 20 | The report — from the City Research Project , which is chaired by the former chairman of the Securities Association , Stanislas Yassukovich — also says that the UK financial regulatory system has failed to focus adequately on fraud and misappropriation . |
| 21 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 22 | Most of the ex-municipal cars were accommodated in the former part , but Walthamstow and the three companies were given numbers in the 20005 above the highest L.C.C . |
| 23 | The only even superficially attractive argument from the names in favour of his view is the implicit one that " Fenari-oglu " is used in the former case but not in the latter . |
| 24 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 25 | And the whole of the new organization was co-located in the former Air Ministry/Board of Trade building on the south side of Whitehall , where it is today . |
| 26 | The Vatican in December 1989 ordered the closure in Recife on the east coast of two progressive seminaries founded by the former Archbishop of Olinda and Recife , the Most Rev. Helder Câmara . |
| 27 | ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash . |
| 28 | At the same time , the Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit was commissioned by the former Training Agency to identify competences in the areas of literacy and numeracy which would link to the BBC programmes . |
| 29 | The detailed plans were drafted by the former army GOC Sir John Wilsey . |
| 30 | Mrs Jones is pictured ornamenting a Jasper sweet dish — watched by the former Lord Mayor and ornamenter Paul Harper . |