Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far has the idea of the University purchasing the former Warburg Library building in Heilwigstraße on the River Alster progressed ? |
| 2 | A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back .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 | The coalition involved the former ruling and sole legal party , the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND ) , and four main opposition parties : the MDR , the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) , the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) and the Liberal Party ( PL ) . |
| 4 | Simply expressed , parliamentary democracy and the representation of individual electors by unfettered parliamentary leaders is challenged in favour of party democracy and the representation of collective ( class ) interests where the majority wishes of the party activists outside Parliament in the constituencies are interposed between the parliamentary leaders and the electorate to limit the former and to provide the party programme for choice by the latter . |
| 5 | The latter two may be the attractions prompting the former , but where the countryside or environmental features are the foci of interest , large influxes of people and the attendant services that they require can bring about environmental change . |
| 6 | Filmed like DORRIT in Edzard 's own studio at Rotherhithe , THE FOOL recalls the former in a palpable recreation of a vanished world : a world of physical and spiritual claustrophobia , evoked with an almost fetishistic attention to detail . |
| 7 | Obviously there must be evidence outside the registry of the trusts affecting the former matrimonial home and the declaration of trust set out at Precedent 50 is appropriate both for registered and unregistered land . |
| 8 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 9 | The article quoted the former editor of the Catholic News , Edgar D'Souza , who accused Lee of using the controversial Internal Security Act ( ISA ) against the Church and of " tricking " the Catholic Archbishop of Singapore , Gregory Yong Sool Nighean , into appearing at a press conference in support of the government over the arrests . |
| 10 | How unfortunate … that they have refused to read or respect one another , the one convinced that the other survives on undisciplined rhetoric and an irresponsible lack of rigour , the other suspecting the former of aridity , superficiality and over-subtle trivialization ( Ibid. , p. ix ) |
| 11 | Other areas which Mr Chambers believed could drain funds from the UK included the former Soviet republics , Iran and Venezuela . |
| 12 | The corporation chose the former ; the agency fined it $500,000 and instructed it to spend a further $200,000 in corrective advertising . |
| 13 | Gerhard Stoltenberg ( the federal Defence Minister — see p. 36597 ) resigned in April 1989 as CDU party chairman in Schleswig-Holstein , following a period of setbacks for the CDU , including the scandal surrounding the former ( CDU ) Minister President , Uwe Barschel — see pp. 35722-23 ; 36045 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The company bought the former geriatric hospital from Fife Health Board last December as part of a plan to develop a world-class golf facility on around 300 acres of surrounding land . |
| 16 | The hotel incorporates the former home of Josiah Wedgwood and QMH wants the hotel to be a showcase for the work of the potteries . |
| 17 | Hours after the polls closed the former Prime Minister , Benazir Bhutto , accused the interim government of having " stolen " the elections by widespread vote-rigging . |
| 18 | The first substantial alliance of opposition forces since the introduction of democracy in 1987 , the merger restored the former two-party structure after several years of regional political groupings . |